Bulldozer Clears Abandoned Cars & Steve Guttenberg Interviewed Live On-Air — Watch How Local TV Is Covering Palisades Fire

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Local TV news is covering the Palisades Fire live as it unfolds, producing some surreal scenes that even longtime Los Angeles residents never have witnessed.

Among those is the wild video of a giant bulldozer powering through dozens of cars — including Mercedes, BMWs, Teslas and other high-end makes — that were abandoned along Palisades Drive as gridlock hit during mandatory evacuations and panicked resident fled.

Watch it above. During a live phone interview with KTLA-TV on Tuesday afternoon, retired Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Bob Goldman stressed the need for area residents to be prepared to evacuate on short notice. “I don’t recall a wind event like this in 15 to 20 years, so this is really unique,” he said. “I, like most people, was rather shocked to see what was going on with the dozer pushing the cars out of the way — having to go to that extreme measure. … You know, people have got to have a plan.

There’s really nothing glamorous or sexy about preparedness.” Earlier, KTLA reporter Gene Kang was doing man-on-the-street interviews and encountered a local resident who was bemoaning the vehicles blocking the road.