A brush fire ignited in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, forcing residents to evacuate and prompting concerns about structural damage. The quickly spreading blaze consumed hundreds of acres and sent a massive plume of smoke visible across the city.
As strong winds continued to batter Southern California , a large brush fire broke out in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades on Tuesday. Fire crews were battling a handful of fast-moving fires in the Los Angeles hillsides and residents living in the area of the Pacific Palisades were forced to evacuate their homes. The Palisades Fire swiftly consumed about 772 acres of dry brush as of 2 p.m. PT. The blaze sent up a huge plume of smoke visible across the city.
Residents in Venice Beach, some 6 miles away, reported seeing the flames. The blaze was one of nearly 8,000 wildfires that added up to scorch more than 1,560 square miles in the Golden State last year.Several structures are threatened by the blaze, according to FOX 11. Video from the scene showed at least two homes on fire in the area and at least a dozen homes are in danger of becoming consumed as well. Road closures have been ordered along the Pacific Coast Highway and traffic has caused heavy gridlock. FOX 11’s Hailey Winslow spoke by phone to Tricia Cosentino, who attempted to flee along Palisades Drive but was forced to turn around by the choking smoke, flames, and heavy traffic.'I put the animals in the car, put my son in the car, even picked up a hitchhiker. We were surrounded by flames on all sides. There was smoke everywhere and I made a U-turn and came back up the hill because I was afraid to drive through it. So we're stuck here,' she recalled.'The canyon itself has a little bit of unstable land. So the rocks that are normally behind barriers, there's all sorts of rocks that have now crumbled onto the road itself. So it's even a little bit hard to drive. There is smoldering. There's ash. Literally just within a foot or two of the road itself, the flames were coming all the way down. I have never been so terrified in my entire life.'When asked why she didn’t leave earlier, Cosentino said previous close calls made her think the family was safe.'We've always been able to leav
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