Strong winds drive wildfires across Los Angeles
Strong winds drive wildfires across Los Angeles
Tens of thousands are evacuated as wildfires spread rapidly, causing panic and traffic jams.
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Published on: 08/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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California firefighters have battled wind-whipped wildfires that have torn across the Los Angeles area. The blaze that started hours earlier ripped through the city’s Pacific Palisades neighbourhood, a hillside area along the coast dotted with celebrity residences and memorialised by the Beach Boys in their 1960s hit “Surfin’ USA”. Officials did not give an estimate of structures damaged or destroyed in the Pacific Palisades wildfire. About 30,000 residents were under evacuation orders and more than 13,000 structures were under threat. By evening, flames had spread into neighbouring Malibu.
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