Images of Pacific Palisades are taking over social media, and they’re scary

SOCIAL MEDIA – Videos, each scarier than the last. While more than 1,400 firefighters are battling fires in the Los Angeles area this Wednesday, January 8, which have caused at least two deaths and injuries, a flood of apocalyptic images is hitting social networks.

As you can see in our video abovemany residents among the 30,000 affected by an evacuation order filmed themselves leaving their burning neighborhood. By car or on foot, they showed embers flying through the air, as well as entire houses catching fire. According to an initial assessment by the authorities, at least 1,000 buildings were destroyed in one of the fires.

In a video seen more than 2 million times on the social network X and relayed by the local television channel Fox 11 Los Angeleswe notably see two men and a dog trapped behind bay windows threatened by impressive flames. On TikTok, several videos that have gone viral show the plume of smoke seen by residents of other neighborhoods, worried about the darkening sky.

Many residents evacuated in panic, with just a few belongings and their pets. Many have found themselves stuck in traffic, like Kelsey Trainor. “There was nowhere to go and people were abandoning their cars”she said. “Everyone was honking, there were flames all around us, left, right (…). It was terrifying. »

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