Weather & Science

Los Angeles Fire Pushes Northeast to Threaten Bel Air, Brentwood

  • Ultra-affluent neighborhoods under evacuation warnings
  • Fires among the most destructive in California history

A helicopter drops water on the Palisades Fire near the Sullivan Canyon area of Los Angeles on Saturday.

Photographer: Benjamin Fanjoy/Bloomberg
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The devastating Palisades Fire pushed to the northeast, prompting new evacuations in the ultra-affluent Southern California neighborhoods of Brentwood and Bel Air as the threat of more dry winds raised risks after a brief respite.

The spreading flames brought “another night of unimaginable terror and heartbreak,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath said early Saturday.