LAX video journalist “Airline Videos” captured the moment the Pacific Palisades fire erupted on Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday morning around 10:30, LAX airport streamer Kevin noticed a plume of smoke shortly before a United Airlines flight landed.
“Uh oh! Uh oh! Uh oh! Not something we wanna see here in Southern California. A fire has now broke out. That is looking like Encino. Uh oh. Not what we wanna see here in Southern California. A fire has now broke out there in the hills. I believe that’s looking toward possibly Bel Air, Encino,” Livestreamer Kevin said Tuesday morning.
“This was the concern for many with these high winds and as dry as they are. Weather watch in full effect,” Kevin said referring to the gusty Santa Ana winds that reached over 80 miles per hour on Tuesday.
“With these high winds that fire can spread really quickly,” Kevin said as he panned over to the plume of smoke in the distance. “There are a lot of expensive homes up there in the hills.”
WATCH:
NEW: My former @FOXLA colleague Kevin captured video of the moment the #PalisadesFire first broke out on Tuesday morning. He runs @airlinevideos at LAX, where he has live cameras set up.
At 10:26 AM, as a Delta flight lands, you see the first small plume of smoke in the hills… pic.twitter.com/UwkEhwfuvJ
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 9, 2025
A few hours later the Pacific Palisades fire exploded and burned thousands of acres.
A friend who lives in Pacific Palisades sent me these horrific videos of the fire.
He just evacuated and said traffic was so bad people abandoned their cars. pic.twitter.com/mbOjz8QAf9
— Jon Michael Raasch (@JMRaasch) January 7, 2025
Five people died and more than 5,000 structures were destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire as of Friday.
The 360 degree annihilation of parts of Pacific Palisades is genuinely difficult to take in… pic.twitter.com/wzu2YDcND4
— alex thomson (@alextomo) January 9, 2025