• By Nidhi Giri
  • Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:45 AM (IST)
  • Source:JND

Los Angeles Fire: A drone footage captured the devastating destruction in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood after the raging wildfires crumbled homes and structures. The out-of-control wildfires have caused at least  deaths, burning down hundreds of buildings, and prompting evacuation orders for nearly 180,000 residents. The Palisades fire gathered traction on Tuesday when the blaze grew quickly and burnt thousands of acres on Wednesday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Just after a few hours into the Palisades fire when the Eaton fire erupted near Pasadena in the San Gabriel Mountains. The Santa Ana winds aided the fires which were moving at a gust of 90 miles per hour over some mountain peaks.

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The visuals showed bare structures of homes surrounded by debris over a destroyed neighbourhood where small patches of fires remained as thick plumes of gray smoke filled the air.

This comes as officials said that worsening winds could impact their response as out of five fires, three were completely uncontained and had already burned nearly 30,000 acres in Los Angeles. Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive natural disasters the city has seen, burned at least 19,059 acres, while the Altadena and Pasadena-based Eaton fire has scorched some 13,690 acres.

The fires are concentrated in a 25-mile stretch north of downtown Los Angeles, and with winds expected to intensify, authorities are concerned the fire will spread further. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass warned, "We are expecting this fire to rapidly spread due to high winds," with forecasts predicting stronger winds through Thursday evening and Friday morning.

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Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna said fire-ravaged neighborhoods “look like a bomb was dropped in them." Numerous residents in California remained without power with roughly 863,000 outages in Los Angeles County and another 857,000 or so in neighboring San Bernadino County, as per tracker PowerOutage.us.