The Palisades Fire, fueled by strong winds, quickly spread through a Los Angeles neighborhood, causing widespread damage and forcing residents to evacuate.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.In a matter of seconds, everything went black. Then the flames flared from right outside the car window. Fire trucks roared into view as this reporter and other cars braked and flipped around, driving through the wall of dark smoke on the wrong side of the road. Residents who were riding through on bikes skidded to a halt, trying to cover their eyes as the wind gusts drove the sharp smoke straight at them.
Turning down a side street through a neighbourhood, it was eerily quiet except for the popping. To the left, a home caught fire, massive orange flames dancing behind a white picket fence. One or two residents who had stayed behind stood watching it, paralysed. Pausing at a stop sign, a few cars tried to go left, into the smoke-shrouded orange glow. Flames danced from below, right by the high school. Deciding it was too dangerous, one turned around. Another home had just caught fire. In the house next to it, a Christmas tree stood in an abandoned living room. All the lights were still on.The Palisades Fire erupted in a way that residents here know fires can move, but are still never prepared for. The winds had arrived early on Tuesday, in what the National Weather Service called a “life-threatening and destructive” windstorm. Once the fire broke out, it quickly exploded. Everything, it seems, caught fire in a matter of minutes, outpacing the swarm of police and fire officials who raced to the scene. “It’s going to burn everything,” one sergeant sighed after hearing the news come across his radio that the fire was making its way to Palisades High School. On Sunset Boulevard, the remnants of a chaotic, harrowing evacuation were littered everywhere: at least 50 cars crunched together, their mirrors and doors smashed after a massive red L.A. Fire Department dozer came through to make way for trucks
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