Californians’ Luxury Cars Bulldozed By Firefighters In Palisades Fire

Firefighters in the Los Angeles, California area are bulldozing luxury cars out of the way after owners ditched them in streets. The Teslas, Mercedes, BMWs, etc. have clogged roads officials need to get firetrucks and other resources down to combat the out-of-control wildfire that’s now ripping through ritzy neighborhoods.

A single mother was body slammed into the road in a shocking road rage fight.

Chaos rules supreme in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles as the fast moving fire led to drivers abandoning their luxury cars in the middle of roads, running for their lives. In multiple reports, residents said firefighters or police officers told them to leave their vehicles and get out of the area on foot.

While on some roads drivers pulled off to the side, you can see on others people clogged every gap from one shoulder to the next. Since drivers left the cars without keys, officials had no choice but to bulldoze them out of the way to create a path, damaging the vehicles in the process.

Actor Steve Guttenberg was interviewed by a KTLA 5 reporter and he asked in a live broadcast for people to please leave the key in their car if they have to abandon it. He apparently was trying to help clear vehicles out of the way in his area so fire crews could get through and was frustrated by the gridlock.

We’ve seen incidents where people have driven through forest fires, the heat so intense it damaged the paint on their vehicle and even warped the tires. But with high winds fueling this fire, flaming palm fronds and showers of live embers are reportedly just catching whatever they hit on fire, including cars.

So anyone saying Californians who are ditching their vehicles and running for it is ridiculous, we actually can see why they did it. When fire is engulfing both sides of the road and traffic isn’t moving, you’re literally a sitting duck with gallons of highly combustible liquid underneath you.

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