Some frightened residents were forced to abandon their cars and flee on foot from the rapidly spreading fire.
Tens of thousands of people were forced to flee parts of Los Angeles as strong winds pushed people away. rapid growth of wildfires around the city in the western United States.
More than 30,000 people were evacuated Tuesday as strong winds helped spread a brush fire in the coastal neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. Other fires subsequently threatened other areas of Southern California.
Frightened residents abandoned their cars on one of the only roads in and out of the upscale Pacific Palisades neighborhood, fleeing on foot the nearly 3,000-acre (1,200-hectare) fire that engulfed an area filled with townhouses. several million dollars in the Santa Monica Mountains. .
Firefighters used bulldozers to push dozens of vehicles aside, leaving many collapsed with their alarms blaring, to make way for emergency vehicles.
Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said that despite the chaotic evacuation, there were no immediate reports of deaths.
A fire official told television station KTLA that several people were injured, some with burns to their faces and hands. A female firefighter was reported to have suffered a head injury.
Hundreds of firefighters swarmed the area, attacking the blaze from the ground and air, while crews worked in steep terrain to cut vegetation and create firebreaks.
“We are not out of danger,” Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said at an afternoon news conference.
A second fire broke out about 30 miles inland, near Pasadena, and doubled in size to 400 acres (162 hectares) within hours, according to Cal Fire.
Nearly 100 elderly nursing home residents were evacuated from the city, according to CBS News.
Videos and photos showed elderly residents, many in wheelchairs and on stretchers, crowded into a smoky, windswept parking lot as fire trucks and ambulances arrived.
Fire officials said a third fire prompted evacuation orders in the San Fernando Valley, northwest of Los Angeles.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Joe Biden approved federal aid to help firefighters respond.
