These kinds of fires seemed to happen about once a year in the early 1960s. I remember several times kids coming to school crying of Junior High School or High School age crying because their houses burned down in the hills surrounding Glendale where they couldn't get the fire trucks near enough to their houses to save them because of the 100 mph winds then. So, this is just the latest time that this is happening in Los Angeles not the first. It has always been like this since at least the 1950s when I was a child and moved there in 1954 when I was 6 years old.
The worst area for fires traditionally is between the Ventura Freeway and Malibu, California on the coast. I have never really figured out why this is? Part of the problem is that there is ONLY pacific Coast Highway to evacuate when a fire happens in Malibu Canyon and the Santa Ana Winds almost always blow this fire into the ocean. So, people often stay alive by going into the ocean as long as they have masks or shirts or something to breathe through so they don't die of smoke inhalation as the smoke blows out to sea in the general direction of Catalina Island.
By the way Pacific Palisades is in between Santa Monica and Malibu on the coast which also makes sense why this fire is so ferocious right now too. the Pallisades Fire is at zero percent containment as of Tuesday night at almost midnight.
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