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They anticipate the fire reaching this point. That has a lot of people in the San Fernando Valley worried. The fire is uncomfortably close."
Referring to the area around Mulholland Drive where authorities were dropping slurry lines, Sky5 reporter Gil Leyvas said The #PalisadesFire is burning in the hills between Brentwood and Encino. The wind very light and the forward progress of the north flank has almost stopped. The fire has not crossed into the San Fernando Valley, and is nearly stationary west of Mandeville Canyon Rd."
ABC7 helicopter reporter Chris Cristi shared a still photograph of the Palisades Fire on X, commenting View from North Hollywood of the #PalisadesFire that's extending into the San Fernando Valley [crying face emoji]."
Recently elected House Democrat Luz Rivas also shared a photograph of the fire, commenting Ugh the fire is moving into the San Fernando Valley [broken heart emoji]. With evacuations in Encino and Tarzana. This is so scary."
Another X user from California posted a video of the fire advancing on X, adding Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse
wrote Joan Didion in 1969, in an essay about the Santa Anas One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America [is] ashes ... and Gavin Newscum should resign.”
This is their second visit,
Walt Disney came to Los Angeles with little more than his limitless imagination, and it was here that he chose to make his home, pursue his dreams, and create extraordinary storytelling that means so much to so many people around the world,
There's going to have to be a real evaluation here, because hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people have just been completely displaced,
We didn't see a single firefighter while we were throwing buckets of water to defend our house against the flames"
on Tuesday night ... said Nicholas Norman, 40 That's textbook Trump: he's trying to start a polemic with false information,
said architect Ross Ramsey, 37 They were too busy over in the Palisades saving the rich and famous's properties, and they let us common folks burn,
I don't think the officials were prepared at all,
said James Brown, a 65-year-old retired lawyer in Altadena It's too early to point fingers or blame anybody for anything,
he told AFP, while clearing ashes from the remains of his mother's house Things should have been in place that could have prevented this,
It’s OK. It’s OK,
Berg said as much to herself as others as she took stock of the destruction, remembering the deck and pool from which her family watched fireworks Faults are caused by tree limbs touching wires or wires blowing in the wind and touching. That creates a spark in a fault, and we detect all of those things,
Marshall explained, ... adding that Currently, over 600 California National Guardsmen are activated, including 14 hand crews for fuel mitigation, 200 military police for security operations, and 10 helicopters for firefighting and search and rescue operations. This number is expected to increase over the next 24 hours,
Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters When a firefighter comes up to a hydrant, we expect there’s going to be water,
We are asking Bruins on campus to remain vigilant and be ready to evacuate, should the alert be extended to our campus,
it said, referring to UCLA students by their nickname
