Multiple major wildfires fueled by strong winds have ravaged communities in the Los Angeles area, killing five people and destroying thousands of homes. The fires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, have consumed nearly 42 square miles and prompted evacuations for over 130,000 people. Despite the challenges posed by the wind and dry conditions, firefighters made progress on some of the blazes, particularly the Sunset Fire in the Hollywood Hills. Celebrities like Mandy Moore, Cary Elwes and Paris Hilton have also lost homes in the fires.
LOS ANGELES — Firefighters battled early Thursday to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes.
A day earlier, hurricane-force winds blew embers through the air, igniting block after block in the coastal neighborhood of Pacific Palisades as well as in Altadena, a community near Pasadena that is about 25 miles east. Aircraft had to be grounded for a time because of the winds, hampering firefighting efforts.
“So we had to call a few people and then we had people messaging, asking if their house was still standing,” he said. “We had to tell them that it’s not.” More than half a dozen schools in the area were either damaged or destroyed, and UCLA has canceled classes for the week. More than 300 patients and residents of nursing homes and other care facilities were evacuated after the blazes this week, according to data from the California Department of Public Health.The flames marched toward highly populated and affluent neighborhoods, including Calabasas and Santa Monica, home to California’s rich and famous.
“It’s just really weird coming back to somewhere that doesn’t really exist anymore,” said Dylan Vincent, who returned to the neighborhood to retrieve some items and saw that his elementary school had burned down and that whole blocks had been flattened.California’s wildfire season is beginning earlier and ending later due to rising temperatures and decreased rainfall tied to climate change, according to recent data.
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