A wind-whipped wildfire tore across the celebrity area of Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles on Tuesday, triggering the evacuation of more than 30,000 residents and putting 13,000 buildings under threat, Reuters has reported.
According to officials cited by the news agency, the fire in the affluent neighborhood, between the coastal towns of Santa Monica and Malibu, has consumed nearly 12 square kilometers, sending up a plume of smoke, visible across LA.
The fire was first reported at 10:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday, prompting thousands of evacuations across the district and into neighboring Malibu. A second blaze dubbed the Eaton Fire started several hours later near Pasadena, and a third named the Hurst Fire swept through Sylmar, in the San Fernando Valley to the northwest of Los Angeles, prompting more evacuations.
