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The sky over the Pacific Palisades had turned the color of rust, with the thick smoke blocking the late afternoon sun. When I arrived just a couple of hours after the first reports of the Palisades fire had come in, multimillion-dollar homes and the hills above them were already on fire as I turned off Sunset Boulevard and entered a residential neighborhood in the Pacific Palisades. The roads leading out of the hills were filled with evacuation traffic that clogged the winding streets. In contrast, others had abandoned their cars altogether, shouldering backpacks, pets, and whatever they could carry.
Firefighting aircraft had been making progress for a brief window, dropping water and fire retardant over the advancing line. But as the Santa Ana winds strengthened, their operations were delayed. Without them, the flames leaped across roads and ridgelines with terrifying speed. Then, there was a silence in the air — punctuated only by gusts of wind, burning homes, and exploding propane tanks.
Covering a wildfire requires constant awareness. The unpredictability of shifting winds can rapidly change fire direction, cutting off escape routes, and thick smoke reduces visibility, obscuring hazards like falling trees, downed power lines, and hidden embers that can ignite new fires behind or around you. The air itself is hazardous, filled with toxic particulates from burning structures, vehicles, and industrial materials. Conditions can turn deadly without warning.
Despite the overwhelming danger, some residents chose to stay and fight. A man, who appeared to be in his sixties, stood in his neighbor’s yard, dousing dry brush with a garden hose. The visibility dropped to a few hundred feet in places as the toxic smoke thickened.
Then, just as night settled in and the Palisades Fire seemed unstoppable, news broke of a new fire emerging in Altadena: the Eaton Fire. Two blazes now bookended the city, both raging out of control.
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