"Urgente evacuación en California: residentes abandonan vehículos mientras las llamas avanzan"

Residentes de Los Ángeles, aterrados, abandonaron sus vehículos para escapar de un voraz incendio forestal que se acercaba rápidamente a un idílico enclave de celebridades. Testigos oculares relataron escenas dignas de una película de desastres de Hollywood.

A windstorm whipped a seemingly typical brush fire into a raging inferno within a matter of hours on Tuesday, sending the blaze racing towards the Pacific Palisades area.

Thirty thousand people were ordered to evacuate as the conflagration surrounded the neighbourhood in the west of the city, exploding rapidly from 10 acres to several thousand in size.