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Firefighters are battling multiple wildfires in Los Angeles County as a devastating windstorm has created extremely dangerous fire weather conditions.
Tens of thousands of people are under evacuation orders. The largest fire, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, has destroyed 1,000 structures and is growing, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said on Wednesday.
Many were forced to abandon cars in the neighborhood between Malibu and Santa Monica, prompting fire officials to use a bulldozer to move vehicles that piled up as evacuees became stuck in traffic. With traffic slowing evacuations and flames jumping the highway, some had considered sheltering on the beach.
Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. Sheila Kelliher said the terrain and wind combined created a “massive fight.”
“It’s the perfect storm, as they say — the low relative humidity, the high gusty winds, the low fuel moisture, the lack of rain and the excessive fuel growth that we’ve had over the last three years really have set this up for this once-in-a-decade wind event,” she told CNN’s Laura Coates.
