I have evacuated Los Angeles and am safe.
While the Palisades fire represents the visualisation of the disaster, I am actually more concerned about the Eaton fire in Altadena. All of the confirmed deaths have come from this area so far. While the Pacific Palisades is a wealthy neighborhood home to many celebrities, Altadena was until recently a true working class neighborhood. Since housing prices increased rapidly in the Pasadena area, Altadena has become more affluent. However it still has a strong blue collar sensibility and old west atmosphere. Being unincorporated, its infrastructure is underdeveloped and not equipped for this kind of fire, and I have no doubt in my mind that the county is focusing more on the Palisades fire for optics.
KTTV (Fox 11) is the most liberal of the TV networks here. I can’t even watch it. I prefer KNBC and KTLA.