Firefighters from Northern California and neighboring Arizona have been sent to Southern California as out-of-control fires rage on in Los Angeles County.
Fires began Tuesday afternoon as high-speed winds, known as the Santa Ana winds, quickly spread flames from a small fire into Pacific Palisades, an affluent neighborhood in Los Angeles. As of Wednesday morning, two additional fires in the San Fernando Valley and the canyons above Altadena broke out overnight, and the Palisades fire spread to Malibu and Calabasas.
Due to the fire’s rapidly increasing presence and its potential to move into more densely populated areas of Los Angeles, crews from both Alameda County in Northern California and the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management have been dispatched to assist the Los Angeles Fire Department…