The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) asked students Friday night to prepare for a possible evacuation as evacuation advisories for the Palisades Fire were extended closer to the time. campus.
“This is NOT a withdrawal alert. An evacuation warning has been issued for an area adjacent to UCLA due to the Palisades Fire. We are asking you to remain vigilant and be ready to leave if the alert is extended to our campus,” the university said in a statement on its website.
The latest evacuation order on Friday night extended to parts of Interstate 405 and Encino Reservoir, bordering I-405 and the Getty Center — just a few minutes’ drive from the UCLA campus.
A warning for people to leave remains in effect for the strip of land on the other side of the highway, ending just above the university.
The university has more than 46,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and ordered all classes to be taught remotely on Monday (13).
This content was originally published in University of California asks students to prepare to leave the site on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil

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