'Run for your lives' Motorists trying to flee Pacific Palisades face flames, chaos, danger

"This is like an apocalypse," she said. "I live on a ridge. I'm going to be pretty screwed if the fire goes up Pali Drive."

"I can see flames up on the hillsides and then it kind of jumped and right now I can't see anything because the smoke is all dark," he said. "The fire is jumping around because it's so windy. It's pretty ominous."

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