The fast-moving, 3,000-acre Malibu wildfire in Los Angeles County, California, has destroyed homes and prompted authorities to order the evacuation of almost 20,000 residents due to strong winds.
As thousands of first responders attempted to contain the fire, the Los Angeles National Weather Service issued a warning Tuesday night that there was still a “very extreme fire danger” over southern California.
Several well-known people who reside in the coveted coastal town of Malibu are among the evacuees fleeing Malibu. Actor Dick Van Dyke, who turns 99 on Friday, said on Facebook that he and his wife Arlene, along with all of their pets—aside from a cat named Bobo—escaped safely on Tuesday.
Publicist Liz Rosenberg told the New York Times that singer Cher and her pets were also moved to a motel on Monday night.
As they watched flames spread around them, students at Pepperdine University in Malibu described the terrible experience of being ordered to stay inside the campus library and other facilities.
“With the students that I spoke to, we’d much rather be taking finals than going through this experience,” Rachel Flynn, a senior at Pepperdine, told NBC Los Angeles. “We were supposed to be taking finals this week.”
“Tonight, it s on Dresher Hill, which is the opposite side of campus than it was last night,” she explained. Given that my dorm is located there, that is undoubtedly troubling to me. I have my automobile parked there. The flames are growing and spreading, and I can see it.”
According to Flynn, some had improvised mattresses out of couches and were resigned to their temporary residence.
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