Palisades Fire Rages & Wildfire Fallout | 1.9.25
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The most destructive fire in L.A. history is raging across Southern California, burning more than a thousand structures and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate.
She came out. I'm sorry. Just, you know, one day you're swimming in the pool and the next day it's all gone.
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Historic wildfires continue to rip through Los Angeles, forcing tens of thousands from their homes and pushing first responders to the brink.
Here with the latest is Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips. So Cabot, a major disaster unfolding in one of the most densely populated regions of the country. Truly shocking footage coming out of California. Get us up to speed.
Well, at the start of this week, the National Weather Service issued its highest fire alert for Los Angeles County, warning that conditions were ripe for a serious blaze. Humidity was low, vegetation was dry, and most importantly, extremely strong winds with gusts up to 100 miles per hour were coming in off the Pacific. And sadly, those warnings came to fruition Tuesday when what's now being called the Palisades Fire broke out in the morning between Santa Monica and Malibu. Hours later, a separate blaze, potentially caused by flying embers, started near Pasadena. And then again, yet another blaze set off in the San Fernando Valley, northwest of downtown LA. Within 24 hours, those fires had consumed well over 20,000 acres, destroying thousands of homes and other buildings, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands, and forcing tens of thousands more to evacuate.
Well, the scenes of the evacuation and the destruction are just horrifying. Yeah.
Yeah, it really has looked like something out of a disaster movie. Many residents were clearly caught off guard by how quickly the fire was spreading. In one video, you can hear two men attempting to fight the fire with a garden hose before fleeing down the street as trees and rooftops all around are set ablaze.
No, just let it burn and God protect this house in the name of Jesus. Protect this neighborhood, God, in Jesus' name, I pray, amen.
This tree is going to kill us.
All right, there's nothing we can do now, bro.
But as more and more folks rushed to evacuate, roads out of town became snarled with traffic. Many chose to abandon their cars to flee on foot, which only worsened the gridlock and made it even harder for first responders to get to the scene. In a number of instances, fire departments brought in bulldozers to clear a path through street after street of abandoned luxury cars. In Pasadena, just harrowing footage shows nursing home employees and first responders frantically pushing elderly patients down gridlock streets with, again, flames and smoke all around them. You can get an idea of the chaos in this footage from the scene.
Just incredible heroism from those nursing home employees and first responders there.
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