Devastating fires are sweeping across southern California on Monday. In Los Angeles County, a blaze now dubbed the Getty fire broke out suddenly around 1:30am Monday morning. The LAFD calls it “a very dynamic fire.. moving in a westward direction driven by high winds.” There are now 10,000 structures in the mandatory evacuation zones.
WOAH! ?? The sun is coming up over the #GettyFire in #LosAngeles, burning along the 405 freeway through the Sepulveda Pass (which looks open in both directions). We caught this aerial view in the @KATUNews #LiveDesk from @KTLA and @KTLAMorningNews >> https://t.co/llAKBzFNEd pic.twitter.com/JM5gLlPpnl
— Evan Schreiber (@SchreiberEvan) October 28, 2019
The fire is impacting some of LA’s most affluent neighborhoods. Basketball star LeBron James is among those who had just minutes to evacuate their home. On Twitter, he wrote, “My best wishes as well to the first responders right now doing what they do best!”
Man these LA ? aren’t no joke. Had to emergency evacuate my house and I’ve been driving around with my family trying to get rooms. No luck so far! ??♂️
— LeBron James (@KingJames) October 28, 2019
In the northern part of the states, The Washington Post writes:
Powerful weekend wind gusts frustrated efforts to beat back the massive Kincade Fire that’s cutting a destructive path through Northern California’s wine country and has prompted evacuations of nearly 200,000 people as the wildfire marches southwest toward the county’s population hub of Santa Rosa.
Fire encroaching the highway on 128, both sides, in Sonoma Co. in Healdsburg. Major wind gusts kicking up and and trees and power lines down everywhere. Updates to come #KincadeFire @NBCNews @TODAYshow pic.twitter.com/0vYvsLTLk2
— Sam Brock (@SamBrockNBC) October 27, 2019
Over 90,000 have been evacuated, 23,500 threatened.
91 structures destroyed or damaged;
More than 25,955 acres burned.
Prayers to everyone affected.The longer we wait, the more disaster like this we will get. #ActOnClimate.#Climate #energy #go100re #KincadeFire pic.twitter.com/fIeyvh6Isj
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) October 28, 2019
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