Fresno firefighters to help battle raging Palisades Fire in Southern California

LOS ANGELES (KFSN) -- Thousands were forced to fly their homes arsenic respective fires erupted successful Southern California connected Tuesday.

The archetypal fire, which broke retired successful foothills of Pacific Palisades, forced evacuees to wantonness their cars.

Megan Garmin was evacuating with her toddler and canine erstwhile she got retired of her car and started walking.

"I conscionable started packing up each of our worldly and we got successful the car to go. And past each the cars were abandoned, truthful I had obscurity to go, truthful I conscionable had to get retired of my car and commencement walking. The fume is truthful bad. I don't, I person nary thought wherever we're going," Garmin said.

Shortly aft speaking to quality crews, an LAPD conveyance stopped to prime up Garmin and her kid to instrumentality them to safety.

Track the Palisades Fire's question and evacuation zones here:

Several homes were seen going up successful flames with galore much remaining threatened by the blaze.

Just earlier 5:30 pm, the vegetation and trees and what appeared to beryllium a retention partition astir the Getty Villa Museum caught fire.

The Getty Trust President said unit and the postulation stay safe.

The Villa is simply a antithetic spot than the newer Getty Center but it is the archetypal location of the Getty Museum and houses exhibits.

The persistently changing upwind is making the combat much hard for crews connected the scene, particularly arsenic evening fell.

"We are going to instrumentality vantage of the little temperatures astatine night, but with accrued windspeed, aerial firefighting becomes much dangerous. There is simply a cutoff mile per hr upwind astatine which we volition not run astatine night," said Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone.

The National Weather Service says immoderate isolated upwind gusts could apical 100 miles per hr successful the mountains and foothills of Southern California implicit the adjacent respective days.

Beginning Sunday, the Governor's Office of Emergency Services approved pre-positioning 65 occurrence engines -- and much than 120 further resources from crossed Southern California successful affected counties.

Then connected Monday, CAL FIRE/Fresno County Fire deployed 76 personnel, including 4 manus crews and 5 engines from

Fire skipper Couch says erstwhile crews are deployed for upwind events, they usually enactment for a fewer days.

This time, crews are prepared to enactment up to 21 days.

It's unclear what the Fresno County Fire crews roles are astatine the occurrence astatine this time.

The Fresno Fire Department is sending 4 off-duty firefighters and a battalion main to assistance with the Palisades Fire.

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