Mudslide in Pacific Palisades displaces family of eight
A small mudslide hit a house in Pacific Palisades Sunday night, displacing a family of eight -- four adults and four children -- said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Nicholas Prange.
The mudslide happened around 7:50 p.m. Sunday in the 900 block of N. Las Lomas Avenue.
An approximately 100-foot by 200-foot area of the hillside sloughed off and made contact with a house downhill. The sloughing involved only the top layer of soil, investigators said.
The displaced family will stay with loved ones in the meantime, officials said.
No injuries were reported.
Two houses at the top of the hill were yellow-tagged, restricting access to them. One of those two households at the top also evacuated as a precaution. The house below that was hit by the slide was red-tagged, restricting all access.
A geologist and a grade inspector were expected to arrive Monday morning to assess the hillside.
Leon Faynsod, the owner of one of the houses at the top of the hill, who says he's a civil engineer, said when the fire department told him that it's probably a good idea to go somewhere else, he left his home Sunday night.
