Multiple wildfires fueled by strong winds ravaged the Los Angeles area, causing widespread destruction and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate. The fires, which started in different locations, quickly spread and threatened residential areas, prompting frantic escapes by residents.
Firefighters in California battled wind-whipped wildfires that tore across the Los Angeles area, destroying homes and clogging roadways as tens of thousands of people fled and straining resources as officials prepared for the situation to worsen on Wednesday.
The fire that broke out near a nature preserve in the inland foothills northeast of LA on Tuesday evening spread so rapidly that staff at a senior living center had to push dozens of residents in wheelchairs and hospital beds down the street to a parking lot, where ambulances, buses and even construction vans arrived to take them to safety.Another blaze that started hours earlier ripped through the city's Pacific Palisades neighborhood, a hillside area along the coast dotted with celebrity residences and memorialized by the Beach Boys in their 1960s hit 'Surfin' USA.' In the frantic haste to get to safety, roadways became impassable when scores of people abandoned their vehicles and fled on foot, some toting suitcases.The traffic jam on Palisades Drive prevented emergency vehicles from getting through and a bulldozer was brought in to push the abandoned cars to the side and create a path. Video along the Pacific Coast Highway showed widespread destruction of homes and businesses along the famed roadway.Pacific Palisades resident Kelsey Trainor said the only road in and out of her neighborhood was blocked. Ash fell all around them while fires burned on both sides of the road.'We looked across and the fire had jumped from one side of the road to the other side of the road,' Trainor said. 'People were getting out of the cars with their dogs and babies and bags. They were crying and screaming. 'A third wildfire started around 10:30 p.m. and quickly prompted evacuations in Sylmar, a San Fernando Valley community that is the northernmost neighborhood in Los Angeles. The causes of all three fires were under investigatio
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