Near the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Palisades Drive, parents walked to their cars Monday with children they had picked up early from school because of the Palisades fire, burning to the north. Friends in her neighborhood had sent her photos of smoke near the campus on Palisades Drive. Like other parents of students at Calvary school, he went to collect her when he saw the fire spreading. “My first concern is it’s going to come down the hill.”Los Angeles public schools near the fire remained open Monday afternoon, though additional school police units were dispatched south of the blaze — near Palisades Charter Elementary School, Palisades Charter High School and Marquez Charter School — in case evacuations were needed, said L.A. Schools Police Sgt. At Palisades Charter High School, less than two miles southeast of the fire, a number of students left school early because their families were in the evacuation zone, said Palisades High spokeswoman Ashley Austin.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 21, 2019 20:54 UTC