Wildfire spreads in The Hills as CHAOS grips Los Angeles as new fire in Hollywood Hills threatens land marks
SUMMARY
- A fire has erupted in the Hollywood Hills, forcing LA Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley to cut short a press conference where she was giving an update on the fires
- The fire, dubbed the Sunset Fire by the Los Angeles Fire Department, has forced mandatory evacuations in some areas with celebrity homes
- At least six fires are now burning in Los Angeles and neighboring Ventura county. The others were listed at 0% containment, the officials said, other than one in Woodley, which had shrunk.
- The death toll from the Eaton fire stands at five people and over 100,000 people have been evacuated. Including 37,000 evacuated due to Palisades inferno
- Palisades, the first of the blazes to ignite on Tuesday, has become the most destructive fire in LA history — and continues to spread, officials say
- (“”). Yet firefighters in L.A. are low on water and are taking water from swimming pools and ponds.
- L.A. mayor Karen Bass has defended her presence out of state — she was in Africa with a delegation when the wildfires broke out. Bass has faced backlash for slashing the fire department’s budget by over $17m last summer.
