Evacuations were underway as a massive wildfire raged out of control and engulfed homes in Pacific Palisades, California, on Tuesday.
According to AccuWeather, wind gusts reached up to 65 miles per hour in Southern California on Tuesday.
Shocking video of a ‘fire tornado’ was posted to X.
Another angle of the Palisades fire: pic.twitter.com/R8s3vtNf8S
— Jon Michael Raasch (@JMRaasch) January 7, 2025
A friend who lives in Pacific Palisades sent me these horrific videos of the fire.
He just evacuated and said traffic was so bad people abandoned their cars. pic.twitter.com/mbOjz8QAf9
— Jon Michael Raasch (@JMRaasch) January 7, 2025
People panicked after they got stuck in traffic trying to flee the fire and abandoned their cars on Sunset Blvd.
The cars were being bulldozed to make room for emergency vehicles.
On Sunset Blvd. Abandoned cars are being bulldozed out of the way to make room for emergency vehicles, @KTLA reports. There was a mass panic as the fire approached I’m told pic.twitter.com/6Ds2QHl0PJ
— Jon Michael Raasch (@JMRaasch) January 7, 2025
California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom was on ground watching his state burn down as Democrat legislators refuse to properly manage underbrush.