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As the wind-fueled fires continued to spread across Los Angeles, California Tuesday night, patients from a nursing home in Pasadena were seen being evacuated.
According to NBC News, residents at the Pasadena Park Healthcare & Wellness Center in Pasadena were evacuated as the Eaton Fire threatened the area.
Video footage posted on social media showed nursing home staffers rushing the elderly residents across the street in wheelchairs, as smoke filled the air and the wind is heard blowing hard.
— FirePhotoGirl (@FirePhotoGirl) January 8, 2025
Breaking News!! Patients being raced across the roadways extreme fire danger in Pasadena #eatonfire #breaking pic.twitter.com/GwPzxl6eXJ
— FirePhotoGirl (@FirePhotoGirl) January 8, 2025
According to a Fox11 news report, about 90 nursing home residents were evacuated and moved to other facilities, to get them away from the danger.
🚨 NOW: CHAOS in Pasadena as first responders desperately try to evacuate nursing home patients out of the fire’s path
Patients are even bing loaded into SWAT vehicles to expedite their escape
There are clearly not even CLOSE to enough resources on the ground. pic.twitter.com/92R89SMdjD
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 8, 2025
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