This is video of the early part of the firefight of the Pacific Palisades fire, from January 8th, 2025. The fire was just beginning to spread rapidly at that point, with high winds, sometimes reaching 80 to 100 mph, pushing it through brush and homes, after a winter season with almost no rainfall for most of Southern California.
As I write this post, just to document Los Angeles' most devastating fires ever, in loss of homes and structures, the Palisades Fire is one of several fires currently burning north of L.A.. This fire is still burning three days later, has burned over 21,000 acres, and is beginning to burn homes in Brentwood, far to the east, right now. Well over a thousand homes and structures are burned to the ground in Pacific Palisades and Malibu. I'm writing this post mostly as documentation of what's going on here.
The other really big and devastating fire, the Eaton Fire, has burned over 17,000 acres in the Alta Dena and Pasadena area, one report says over 5,000 homes and structures have been lost. Eleven people are known to have died in the fires at this point. Both fires now (January 11, 2025) have 15% or less containment. Here are more links, as these two big fires, and 3 or 4 smaller fires, rage on. Winds have calmed today, allowing planes and helicopters to really get into action fighting the fires. Stronger winds, offshore Santa Ana winds, are expected to pick back up tonight. Here are more links:
