It starts with thick grey smoke billowing from a hillside Los Angeles neighbourhood studded with celebrities.Within an hour and a half, the view looking north from a webcam perched metres from the famous Santa Monica Pier is dominated by the rapidly spreading Palisades fire, which has forced the evacuation of thousands.That was Monday morning (early Tuesday AEDT). By early afternoon, a camera pointing the other way from a helicopter base west of Pacific Palisades captures the rapid containment efforts.
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