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The Palisades Fire is a wildfire burning in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles County in Southern California which has killed at least three people. As of January 11, 2025, at 4:37 p.m. PST, the fire had spread to 23,654 acres (9,572 ha; 95.72 km 2; 36.959 sq mi), destroying the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles and nearby Malibu.
As the weekend began, a shift in winds sent the fire north and east through the Santa Monica Mountains, forcing evacuations of Brentwood and the hills of Encino and Tarzana.
Over 200 acres were burning in Pacific Palisades, an upscale community with multi-million dollar homes in the Santa Monica Mountains, shuttering a key highway and blanketing the area with thick smoke.
Editor's Note: For the latest on the Palisades Fire for Jan. 8, ... Santa Gabriel / Santa Susana / Santa Monica Mountains & Foothills. San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys. US Wildfire, smoke map.
The largest fire burning is the Palisades Fire which started in the Santa Monica Mountains near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood late Tuesday morning and quickly exploded to nearly 3,000 acres ...
The fire, which was three times larger than the biggest fire ever before in the mountains, burned over 40% of the natural area in the Santa Monicas. [53] The fire created a challenge to native plants as black mustard with bright yellow flowers quickly established itself as a wet winter followed the fire. [ 54 ]
Evacuation orders were in place between Malibu to Santa Monica, south of Calabasas, as of 8:30 a.m. PT on Wednesday, according to C al Fire.. Evacuation warnings were in place on Wednesday morning ...
In Pacific Palisades, wind gusts approaching 100 mph and terrain primed to burn bedeviled firefighters efforts to control the blaze, which was burning into the Santa Monica Mountains and west ...