5:40 AM Monday Malibu – Topanga – Palisades Fire Info

Written by on May 17, 2021

  • No change overnight.
  • PCH open.
  • Next public briefing 10 am
  • No houses burned- three structure defense groups are working the east side of the canyon.
  • L A City Fire has not yet evacuated anywhere in Palisades Highlands but people on several streets were warned Sunday they may be ordered to leave.
  • Topanga Canyon Blvd and Old Topanga Road likely will be closed all day and tonight.
  • The Fernwood neighborhood is accessible from Malibu via the road over the mountains from Las Flores Canyon.
  • But a second roadblock on TCB at the bottom of Fernwood prevents vehicles from making it north into other areas of the canyon.
  • Too foggy for TV chopper to fly around fire this morning.
  • Internet vigilantes may have targeted the wrong suspect, as he is released and a second person is being questioned.

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