The brush fire raging for hours in Los Angeles County will be catastrophic, and you don’t need to be a firefighter or part of an emergency response team to know that. Have you seen these images? Some have rightly described them as apocalyptic. Nursing homes had to be evacuated. It's a nightmare, with videos of people fleeing their homes with the fire on their heels. It's wild.
I can’t tell you how unprecedented it is for a major city fire department to consider a full recall.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) January 8, 2025
This is unquestionably a severe situation: https://t.co/CbxsCFIvYs
All #LAFD members currently off-duty are to call the DOC 213-576-8962 with their availability for recall. #palisadesfire
— LAFD 🔥 (@LAFD) January 8, 2025
This is horrifying and heartbreaking.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 8, 2025
Two men escape from home as fire barrels towards them at the Palisades fire pic.twitter.com/ZnooGK3llJ
THIS. IS. HORRIFYING.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 8, 2025
PLEASE PRAY FOR THESE POOR PEOPLE 🙏 pic.twitter.com/2B0U6wqOAj
🚨 SHOCK FOOTAGE -- ABSOLUTE HORROR UNFOLDING NOW: Elderly nursing home patients are being raced across the roadways to get away from extreme fire danger in Pasadena.pic.twitter.com/D1pZwIHBUH
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 8, 2025
The LAFD also decided to issue a total recall of all firefighters to help fight the blaze. Any off-duty personnel are meant to report for duty. Police are reportedly overwhelmed, with abandoned cars making deployment of emergency crews more cumbersome. Bulldozers were deployed to plow away the vehicles. Actor Steve Guttenberg implored people to leave their car keys behind so he and other volunteers could move them for the fire trucks. The fire jumped the Pacific Coast Highway yesterday.
🚨The Palisades Fire has jumped the Pacific Coast Highwaypic.twitter.com/oSKYG4lavK
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 8, 2025
The Pacific Palisades have been devastated, with some 30,000 people now under mandatory evacuation orders. To boot, there’s another fire raging in Pasadena.
BREAKING: New brushfire has started in the Pasadena area. https://t.co/vfg9Qftsov
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 8, 2025
Frantic police, overwhelmed by the scale of this disaster, now blocking off all access to Palisades. A wall of flames and explosions are on the other side of their security line. pic.twitter.com/mTYJYpkJlY
— Jonathan Vigliotti 🐋 (@JonVigliotti) January 8, 2025
Devastation all around. I’ve lost count of the number of buildings we’ve seen on fire. This is Radcliffe Ave in Pacific Palisades, CA. #PalisadesFire #PacificPalisades #California pic.twitter.com/RKeuOQyMWG
— Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) January 8, 2025
TOTAL DESTRUCTION IN PALISADES.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 8, 2025
📹 @FirePhotoGirlpic.twitter.com/HKklUKarQB
JUST IN - Apocalyptic scenes from Palisades fire in Los Angeles
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) January 8, 2025
pic.twitter.com/2wt7wzK5rb
It’s heartbreaking to witness the loss of a vibrant community. So many landmarks have already been lost to the Palisades Fire and sadly the worst is yet to come. So far the fire has not reached the Palisades Village - the main shopping area, but flames are blocks away. pic.twitter.com/iAS31Fptil
— Jonathan Vigliotti 🐋 (@JonVigliotti) January 8, 2025
Nightmare Fuel
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) January 8, 2025
Two men and a dog trapped in a home surrounded by the Palisades fire. pic.twitter.com/YDCkFmLNbH
Neighborhood after neighborhood… GONE. This is the heart of the Palisades. pic.twitter.com/HPVvbyCKmT
— Jonathan Vigliotti 🐋 (@JonVigliotti) January 8, 2025
Breitbart editor Joel Pollak, who lives in the Palisades, said the “evacuation should have been earlier (received orders after we left), Police should have directed traffic to avoid panic, [and] Schools took too long to release kids.”
Our family escaped Palisades before gridlock. Safe but our house may burn down. Observations:
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) January 7, 2025
- Evacuation should have been earlier (received orders after we left)
- Police should have directed traffic to avoid panic
- Schools took too long to release kids
- Fireworks = disaster
I’m going to make this very clear, if you live anywhere north of the 10 and west of the 405. BE READY TO LEAVE NOW. The fire departments have given up on structural protection outside of those boundaries. Please trust your local infamous fault. For Altadena and even Pasadena, do…
— The San Andreas Fault (@sanandreafault) January 8, 2025
Prayers up, folks. This fire is going to be a horrific one. Meanwhile, is the National Guard going to be deployed? Who’s in charge?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 8, 2025
Another problem is that all aircraft have been grounded due to high winds, so firefighting from air assets is out for now. The worst is coming, with 80-105 mph gusts expected.
The #PalisadesFire is absolutely exploding in West LA and is quickly moving toward homes in Pacific Palisades. The images just continue to get worse. Sadly, the weather for Wednesday calls for even worse winds gusting 60-90 MPH in the Santa Ana Mountains.
— Noah Bergren (@NbergWX) January 8, 2025
Evacuate if you are in… pic.twitter.com/PkwIBfl46C
View from the sky above LA.
— Dan Hellie (@DanHellie) January 8, 2025
Pacific Palisades and Malibu engulfed in flames. Absolutely Horrific. pic.twitter.com/Q5O8XgEHng
Winds will not die down much until noon on Wednesday around Los Angeles ... the worst is yet to come in next few hours with 80-105 mph gusts. This is a hurricane of fire. pic.twitter.com/GzBpqf9vzX
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) January 8, 2025
UPDATE: Santa Monica is under evacuation orders.
🚨 BREAKING: Parts of Santa Monica now ordered to evacuate pic.twitter.com/51N33QeFld
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 8, 2025
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