A fresh Los Angeles wildfire that ignited in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday night is threatening homes and iconic L.A. landmarks, and it’s prompted authorities to issue expanding evacuation orders.

The rapidly growing Sunset Fire that’s threatening Hollywood landmarks along with homes was one of multiple fires burning out of control across Los Angeles County into Thursday morning.

Five deaths were confirmed in one of the blazes which have razed at least 2,000 structures, including the homes of Hollywood actor Billy Crystal and media personality Paris Hilton, and forced tens of thousands of residents to evacuate.

      • Flying Squid
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        141 month ago

        I rented a shitty apartment in the Hollywood Hills. Trust me, I didn’t have a first house, let alone a second or third.

        • @evasive_chimpanzee
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          21 month ago

          I’m just now learning that “hollywood hills” is an officially delineated neighborhood, including some regular-people housing that’s not actually in the hills. Granted, I think the fire was up in the hills, though it was completely contained.

    • sp3ctr4l
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      1 month ago

      To one of the many vacant, overpriced AirBnBs!

      AirBnB is doing an emergency ‘if your house burned down, we’ll give you free temporary lodging if we can’ kind of thing.

      Which… just kind of casually exposes that they could be doing this at any time, to help homeless people or financially distressed people, but hey you know whatever.

      https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-org-offers-temporary-housing-to-people-impacted-by-the-los-angeles-wildfires/

  • Phoenixz
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    221 month ago

    Well thank God that at least climate change has nothing to do with forest fires now starting in January already

    Prepare for the year round forest fires

    • alaphic
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      181 month ago

      Has anyone tried explaining to the fire that climate change is just part of the radical, dangerous leftist agenda? Ooh, no, wait - Show it all the carbon offset credits we’ve got! Cuz those aren’t like the ‘thoughts and prayers’ of climate change policy or anything, and the fire will totally be like, “My bad fam, I didn’t realize”

  • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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    101 month ago

    Lucky for CA that soon Trump can deploy national guard to rake their forests like you’re supposed to if you don’t want fires like this. It’s just forest 101. /s

  • @werefreeatlast
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    21 month ago

    2000 homes, assuming 4 per house, that’s 8000 newly homeless people.

    Insurance? What insurance? No! Your policy doesn’t cover wild fires. If you read the small text, it says that only fires coming from human powered non electric bicycles is covered.