Fast-Moving Wildfire Breaks Out In Pacific Palisades As High Winds Rake Los Angeles

With winds forecast between 40 and 60 miles per hour, a wildfire broke out in Pacific Palisades at about 10:30 this morning.

What began as a 10 acre blaze in the area of Chastain Parkway E and Calle Brittany quickly spread to become a 200 acre blaze in less than an hour.

Local TV stations broke into regular programming to cover the incident, with remote crews staging shots from the beach parking lots on PCH with billowing black smoke in the background.

The National Weather Service in Los Angeles has been warning for several days that today’s windstorm would bring extreme fire conditions as it couples very high winds with very low humidity.