(WXMI) — At last check, at least five people have died and hundreds more have been hurt because of the massive, raging fires in California The flames broke out Tuesday night in the Los Angeles area. We connected with two former West Michiganders who are now in the line of danger.
Kris Kyer gave us a glimpse off his balcony of the darkness draping his Hollywood home.
“There’s one going towards the southwest, which is in the Pacific Palisades area, and now last night, another one started to my left, which is toward the east in the Altadena- Pasadena area,” says Kyer.
“It was devastating this morning,” says Josh Sikkema, a Grand Rapids native who now lives in Marina del Rey. “To just see everything completely gone, I mean, that whole side of the mountain is usually really lush and green and beautiful.”
He’s about eight miles from the Palisades fire but still close enough to be in danger.
“Crazy little thing happened last night where an ember came in and caught a corner of a street on fire right outside my window,” says Sikkema.