Live updates: Brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades as Santa Ana winds blast Southern California - Live video at link

[Space Faring Marsupial]

I've learned so much retarded shit about Eucalyptis trees I may as well become one now.

lmfao

 

[30+GameOvers]

Updated my image, mostly filled empty spaces

Are there any highlights I missed?

 

[Michael Wade]

The Getty Center is under threat. Really hope they already carried out a contingency plan to GTFO all the historical art there.
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Oh shit, I also forgot that there's a whole research library there.

There's a VR app that uses cameras and Google maps to act as a sort of time machine for those lamenting the destruction of culture. I'll have to look up the name.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Don't know if these have been posted yet but a look at the after/during version of the palisades photo i posted a few days ago:


Before:



After image - Facing from the ocean (the original/before is taken from the top right of this one):




Found a version more aligned to the before:





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This just in, we have a photo of the suspects.

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Oh crap the memories... Need to reply! So happy i have the original disks!

 

[BlastMonk]

So winds going to pick up later tonight in LA time, and the fires are already out of control without the wind to move them much faster How many surburbs are these fires going to burn through before they're done?

 

[Rekeita's Kidneys]

Don't know if these have been posted yet but a look at the after/during version of the palisades photo i posted a few days ago:


Before:

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After image - Facing from the ocean (the original/before is taken from the top right of this one):

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Found a version more aligned to the before:

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Oh crap the memories... Need to reply! So happy i have the original disks!

Dude this legit looks like a fucking bomb went off there. Absolutely unreal.

 

[FieldPiece]

I just realized how funny it would be if Seth Rogans house burnt down...like a joint dude weed lmao huhuhuhu.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Incredibly screwed up, actually read the details before you default to whatever your preferred schadenfreude position is. This was a guy with cerebral palsy and his mom tried to rescue him despite having a broken arm herself.

Former Australian child actor Rory Sykes killed in LA wildfires as author mom tried to find help when water ran out
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A blind Australian former child actor was killed when the flames of the Palisades Fire tore through his family’s Malibu cottage and his mother claimed water ran out.

Rory Callum Sykes, 32, who lives with cerebral palsy and appeared in a handful of episodes of the British TV show Kiddy Kapers hosted by his mother author Shelley Sykes, died on the family’s 17-acre estate on Jan. 8.

“It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of my beautiful son to the Malibu fires yesterday,” Shelley Sykes wrote on X.

“He overcame so much with surgeries & therapies to regain his sight & to be able to learn to walk. Despite the pain, he still enthused about traveling the world with me from Africa to Antarctica,” she added.


Sykes was born blind and diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

The cottage caught fire when embers from the deadly blaze landed on the roof, trapping Rory inside, according to 10 News First.

The heartbroken Shelley said she attempted to move her son out of the burning building but an injury stopped her.

“He said ‘Mom leave me’ and no mom can leave their kid,” she told the outlet fighting through tears.

“I’ve got a broken arm, I couldn’t lift him, I couldn’t move him,” added.

His mother said she tried to spray the burning roof with a hose but was unsuccessful, claiming the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District had shut off her water.

The “50 brave firefighters” were also faced with battling the raging inferno in the area without water, Sykes added.

Sykes said she couldn’t call for help because “911” wouldn’t work and drove a quarter mile through the smoke-filled roads to find first responders.

The self-contained cottage had burned down when Shelley and the firefighters returned to the property.

Rory’s death is not part of the 11 fire-related fatalities that the Los Angeles Medical Examiner announced, as his remains have not yet been recovered, the outlet reported.

The Palisades Fire has killed five people while the Eaton Fire claimed six other lives.

Firefighters told Sykes that her son died from carbon monoxide poisoning.


“I didn’t want any pain for my baby,” Sykes cried.

Sykes was a former child actor and hosted the British RTV Show ‘Kiddy Kapers’ in 1998, according to NewsAU.

The Malibu estate was featured on Shelley Sykes Reality TV show “Get Syked with Style.” He later described himself as a “gamer and a philanthropist,” his website read.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Look how close this is to being smack dab in the middle of Santa Monica - could get ugly fast:

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'Nuff said.

I hope it burns down the offices of Sony santa monica and then turns on the rest of the western dev studios. I hope no-one is harmed, but that the gaming industry literally goes up in flames.

 

[Gehenna]

Incredibly screwed up, actually read the details before you default to whatever your preferred schadenfreude position is. This was a guy with cerebral palsy and his mom tried to rescue him despite having a broken arm herself.

None to be had here. No parent should have to bury their child. No matter how old that child has gotten. Neither deserved that fate.

 

[Historical Strelkov]

So winds going to pick up later tonight in LA time, and the fires are already out of control without the wind to move them much faster How many surburbs are these fires going to burn through before they're done?

In terms of the Eaton fire, I had to drive to that side of town the other day. When I was in that area, the wind direction had been to the northeast, the opposite of where it was going before into Altadena. This caused the fire and smoke to be blown into the mountains, towards Mount Wilson. I actually went up to the evacuation area line to see the Mcdonalds that has been used in so many talking points and the irony is, its still standing, and everything else on the block is standing in better condition around it aside from Altamed, where the elderly were evacuated from. That burnt down, which is across the street to the north-east. It's actually a pretty good marker for where the fire was stopped, because there is a large concrete trench next to it, where it appears there was very little fire. It's really up to the wind where the fire goes, but if it is pushed back towards the southwest, it has already burnt through a lot of vegetation and the neighborhood. Will things in the immediate area catch fire as easily as before? The air quality has been getting better each day by roughly half the PM2.5 levels every 24 hours. People in general are still trying to stay out of the affected areas just in case, and people are still in danger in the immediate areas, but the map that is shown online https://www.fire.ca.gov/Incidents shows the "ultimate extent" of the fires, more than it gives an accurate up to date picture of the fires itself. At least, that was what I noticed. If you go around the areas next to the evacuation, half or more of the businesses remained closed. But in general, you can see that the Firefighters did their best to keep the fires away from the major metropolitan area. Whether thats because there's more hydrants, how wind works in cities, the fact that most of our fires are brush fires and require dry tinder on the ground, or whatever, I consider it to be a good thing. Someone I saw the other day told me that the firefighters saved their daughter's house. Someone else told me they lost theirs. When local people are upset, its because you can see the factors that exist on top of their regular problems. Things they were supposed to be doing to earn money, or advance their career, or raise children have been affected. Remember that there's a lack of an economic bounce back over COVID? We were under a much stricter definition of "lockdown" here. Lots of businesses closed, and lots of storefronts remain unoccupied. So there's a larger emotional component driving a lot of people right now, and the lack of certainty because of the percentage of containment being the meter that people are judging the fire is probably driving a large amount of fear as well.

As far as the fire's continuity goes, its really up to how hard the wind pushes the fire into the wilderness, or if its towards civilization, then the question is how impossible does the wind make fighting it in the urban area?
I've seen conflicting reports. Some forecasts predict 30mph maximum winds, but the one that I posted earlier didn't forecast anything above 10mph.
The thing I noticed is that all the fires appear to have been wildfires that have expanded and engulfed the southern neighborhoods below where the wildfire started.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but all the fires seem to be near mountains and hills that are north of suburban neighborhoods, and the neighborhoods that burned were in the immediate direction of where the wind would go. They're all very far away from each other, independent of each other. If you know the area, you know that the places the fires took place are too far to be causatively related. The only explanation being the general "drout, bad management causes multiple fires to be uncontrollable at the same time." If you were an arsonist, it's a really good way to get a fire going into populated areas.



The only anomaly might be the Lidia fire, which is in the middle of nowhere in a way.

 

[Space Faring Marsupial]

None to be had here. No parent should have to bury their child. No matter how old that child has gotten. Neither deserved that fate.

I'm pretty cold hearted but I have to agree. This isn't entertaining. While I can't really muster up much heart ache I can't say it delivers schadenfreude. If it was someone like Epstein that got cooked then I would laugh. These people probably didn't do anything that bad really. I'm sure there are others that don't deserve the hellfire. But I rather cheer for the Hollywood sign to burn than think about harmless people cooking.

 

[Spob]

I'm pretty cold hearted but I have to agree. This isn't entertaining. While I can't really muster up much heart ache I can't say it delivers schadenfreude. If it was someone like Epstein that got cooked then I would laugh. These people probably didn't do anything that bad really. I'm sure there are others that don't deserve the hellfire. But I rather cheer for the Hollywood sign to burn than think about harmless people cooking.

"In this country, it is thought wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."

Also so many comments about this are basically just screaming "why won't you scream this loud when Gaza gets firebombed?"

 

[Bunny Wigglesworth]

Rock slides can also do it, and they are incredibly common here. Roughly 50% of my hikes have some kind of rock slide, and even tiny rocks can create sparks.

The Santa Ana Winds themselves can create sparks just blowing certain particulates around, because all the static electricity.

They better have this put out before the next round...or the devil winds will be like

 

[Stoneheart]

This wouldnt have happened if they had a wall...
Keep that Santa Ana beaner out of the state.

 

[netorare]

is this shit still on fire lmao?

 

[Space Faring Marsupial]

is this shit still on fire lmao?

Yeah. Hollywood still exists though...sad.

 

[Obstacle]

This shall be remembered as "The Great Weenie Roast".

 

[Glowie]

I'm genuinely curious how many joined homeless population of LA? Does anyone have any estimates how many are homeless?

 

[Executive Petrel]

The fire getbitchesdrymogs me.
It's over for non-firecels :/