{"id":821599,"date":"2025-01-21T09:13:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/thousands-evacuate-in-l-a-as-wildfires-and-extreme-wind-hit-southern-california\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:13:25","slug":"thousands-evacuate-in-l-a-as-wildfires-and-extreme-wind-hit-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/thousands-evacuate-in-l-a-as-wildfires-and-extreme-wind-hit-southern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Evacuate in L.A. as Wildfires and Extreme Wind Hit Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Firefighters are currently battling a wildfire in Los Angeles during the first of what\u2019s expected to be two or three days of Santa Ana winds that can reach up to 100 miles per hour. The Palisades Fire is threatening homes in the northern parts of the L.A. metro area, but all of Southern California is on high alert as forecasters warn the dry conditions combined with extremely high winds are potentially \u201chistoric.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Palisades Fire is currently listed at over 1,260 acres with no containment and has prompted mandatory evacuation orders in parts of the northern L.A. neighborhood of Pacific Palisades down to the Pacific Coast Highway. The California Department of Transportation has shut down southbound lanes of Pacific Coast Highway in the area, according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Fire Department gave an update at 3:30 p.m. local time that was livestreamed by KCAL on YouTube<\/a>. Officials report there are 250 firefighters are on scene, including 46 engines, three trucks, five helicopters, four brush patrols, two water tenders, six paramedic ambulances, one fast response vehicle, and a number of officers and fire investigators.<\/p>\n

As the officials at the press conference noted, the worst of the winds are expected between 10 p.m. local time Tuesday and 5 a.m. Wednesday. Genasys has the latest map<\/a> of the current evacuation orders, which includes all of Pacific Palisades at the time of this writing, but those could expand quickly.<\/p>\n