A raging wildfire fueled by strong winds forced the evacuation of a Pasadena senior center Tuesday night. Firefighters and police used an armored vehicle and a bus to rescue approximately 100 residents, many of whom were in wheelchairs.
Firefighters and police urgently rescued elderly residents from a Pasadena senior center Tuesday night as flames from a raging Angeles National Forest fire crept dangerously close. Dramatic video shows the evacuation of about 100 residents -- many in wheelchairs -- unfolding in a 7-Eleven parking lot across from The Terraces at Park Marino, with embers and ash swirling in the chaos of a nearby wildfire ... spurred by what meteorologists are calling one of L.A.
’s worst windstorms in the last decade. A police SWAT armored vehicle and a bus were brought in to whisk senior citizens away from the Eaton Fire -- the second major wildfire to hit L.A. County in the past 24 hours. The blaze ignited around 6 PM Tuesday and quickly swallowed more than 400 acres of brush within just two hours. Pasadena Fire Department crews said the relentless winds are making the flames behave erratically, spreading at breakneck speed -- just like the
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