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"Unprecedented Fires" Scorch 3,000 Acres In Los Angeles Area, Forcing 49,000 To Evacuate

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LA Fire Summary:

• Fast-moving, wind-driven fires are sweeping through the Los Angeles area, forcing mandatory evacuations for over 49,000 residents. The fires remain 0% contained.

• The Palisades Fire (caused unknown) has burned nearly 15,000 acres, while the Eaton Fire has scorched 10,600 acres. 

• AccuWeather Estimates $52 billion to $57 billion in preliminary damage and economic losses

• Gov. Gavin Newsom deployed 1,400 firefighters & declared a state of emergency.

• Nearly 300,000 residential and/or commercial customers are without power in the LA region.

• NWS: Worst fire conditions (high winds) will peak Wednesday morning. 

• Malibu residents warned about potential evacuation.

• Fires ZERO PERCENT CONTAINED 

Evacuation Map (via NYT):

Fire Map (NASA VIIRS image overlaid LA via X user loosenedspirit): 

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Update (1915ET):

"The Palisades Fire, which has quintupled in size since this morning, has now prompted evacuations in the City of Santa Monica," meteorologist Matthew Cappucci wrote on X.

Evacuations are expanding.

Fire is zero contained. 

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Update (1830ET):

Just awful. 

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Update (1545ET):

Via Bloomberg Top Live Desk: 

"In California, nearly 500,000 people have turned to the state's insurer of last resort, the FAIR Plan, which has doubled in size over the past five years. The state is now exposed to nearly $458 billion in potential damage, Mark Gongloff writes for Bloomberg Opinion. The neighborhoods in the path of the Palisades and other fires burning this week have been among some of the hardest-hit by insurer defections in recent years."

Via Bloomberg's Brian Sullivan: 

"The Los Angeles region has a high risk of exposure to wildfires: More than 460,000 homes with a reconstruction value of $300 billion in LA and the Riverside region have a moderate to very high risk of exposure, according to CoreLogic, a property analytics firm.

"CoreLogic noted that not all the homes deemed at risk are directly exposed to the current fires."

Via AccuWeather:

Estimates $52 billion to $57 billion in preliminary damage and economic loss has occurred from the raging Los Angeles area wildfires.

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Update (1534ET):

President-elect Donald Trump on Truth Social: 

"The fires in Los Angeles may go down, in dollar amount, as the worst in the History of our Country. In many circles, they’re doubting whether insurance companies will even have enough money to pay for this catastrophe. Let this serve, and be emblematic, of the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the Biden/Newscum Duo. January 20th cannot come fast enough!"

Meanwhile... 

Clown. 

It is time for Californians to usher in an era of accountability after radical leftist politicians and officials have left the state in chaos.

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Update (1115ET):

LA County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone told reporters, "We have well over 5,000 acres that have burned and the fire is growing. We have no percentage of containment. We have an estimated 1,000 structures destroyed."

Trump was right...

There's nothing like waking up to a fire apocalypse that morning...

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Update (0700ET):

The Palisades, Eaton, and Hurst wildfires raging in Southern California show no signs of abating.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department reported on X that nearly 3,000 acres—roughly 4.5 square miles—are ablaze, and the fire is 0% contained as of early Wednesday morning.

According to PowerOutage.US, nearly 300,000 customers across the area are without power.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote on X that 1,400 firefighters have been delayed in the area to "combat these unprecedented fires."

"Emergency officials, firefighters, and first responders are all hands on deck through the night to do everything possible to protect lives," Newsom said.

Malibu City authorities have urged residents to leave immediately. 

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is nowhere to be found because she is attending the inauguration of Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama in Accra, Ghana.

But-but-but global warming... 

Scenes of the inferno:

Evil global warming? 

Or the homeless starting fires?

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A brush fire that has spread to over 1,200 acres in Los Angeles amid a massive wind storm has prompted a mass evacuation in the upscale Pacific Palisades area on Tuesday.

"Evacuate now from the area of Palisades..." officials warned on X. "Those not in the evacuation area should shelter in place."

The Palisades - home to numerous A-list celebrities, has roughly 9,400 homes and 27,000 residents. After the fire broke out, smoke plumes spread quickly toward structures and homes - including a large area of Topanga Canyon, tucked-away community with a single road in and out.

 

 

Meanwhile, the South Coast Air Quality Management District on Tuesday issued an air quality alert for the Santa Monica Mountains "due to increased fine particle pollution from wildfire smoke," which has now traveled as far east as Diamond Bar, located around 30 miles from downtown LA.

Officials shut down all traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway at Topanga Canyon Boulevard - causing (greater than usual) traffic jams that could be seen all over.

Via fire.ca.gov

Actor James Woods has posted several videos to X showing the fire raging near his house.

People are abandoning their cars in the street...

Developing...