The LA fires have partially destroyed the famous school which set the scene for various Hollywood blockbusters, including Freaky Friday.
More than 40 per cent of Palisades Charter High School is ‘damaged or destroyed’ due to the devastating inferno, the school’s principal revealed.
The free school, which American filmmaker JJ Abrams and Black Eyed Peas member Will.i.am attended, has suffered partial destruction from the inferno, producing ‘hazardous conditions’ on campus.
As of Sunday, the Palisades fire – the largest of the three blazes ripping through Los Angeles – scorched 23,713 acres and was only 13 percent contained.
Principal Dr Pam Magee warned students not to visit campus due to potential risks, such as asbestos and black carbon.
Likely due to its desirable location, Palisades Charter High School has long been a popular filming location for Hollywood films, setting the scene for Stephen King’s 1976 adaptation of Carrie.
The school also featured in the 2003 American comedy Freaky Friday as the school attended by Anna (played by Lindsay Lohan) and Jake (played by Chad Michael Murray).
MTV’s Teen Wolf, which follows a high school student after suffering a werewolf bite and features Dylan O’Brien and Tyler Posey, also used the school as a filming location.
The LA fires have left Palisades Charter High School, the filming location for Stephen King’s Carrie (pictured), 40 per cent destroyed
Most recently, international pop star Olivia Rodrigo filmed the music video for Good 4 U in the school’s sport’s hall and locker room facilities.
‘Earlier this week, Pali’s Director of Operations and I were driven to campus by police escorts due to hazardous conditions,’ the school’s principal wrote in a Facebook post.
Dr Pam Magee continued: ‘I am happy to report that many spaces are not visibly damaged by the fire, including Gilbert Hall, Mercer Hall, most classroom buildings, gyms, the baseball field, MGAC/pool, the Stadium by the Sea, the Quad, and more.
‘Additionally, a significant portion – now estimated at over 40 per cent – has either been damaged or destroyed.
‘I am requesting full cooperation of the Palisades community: our families, staff, students, and neighbours.
‘Due to the damage and potential hazards, such as asbestos, PCBs, black carbon, and other toxins, we must limit access to campus.’

The famous school also set the scene for the 2003 American comedy Freaky Friday, starring Lindsay Lohan as Anna (pictured centre), Hayley Hudson as Peg (pictured left) and Christina Vidal as Maddie (pictured right)

More recently, pop star Olivia Rodrigo used the school’s sports facilities to shoot her music video for Good 4 U (pictured)

Pictured: Palisades Charter High School rests across the street from homes destroyed in the Palisades fire in Pacific Palisades on January 7
The post continued: ‘Only individuals authorised by me, the LAPD, or the Los Angeles Unified School District will be allowed on the property.
‘In short, please refrain from entering the campus as it is off-limits until further notice.
‘The presence of these toxins, especially in the burn zone, could pose significant health risks, particularly to children, and we want to ensure everyone’s safety’.
Due to the damages resulting from the fires, students at Palisades Charter School are currently transitioning to virtual learning.
The fires have destroyed 40,000 acres across the most affluent neighborhoods in LA, with A-list celebrity homes and restaurant hotspots among the 12,300 structures wiped out.
Local fire departments have warned that harsher winds and more fire would prevent those under mandatory evacuation orders from returning home to assess the damage.
‘Life-threatening winds and dangerously low humidity are forecast for much of Southern California creating a significant risk of rapid fire spread,’ the California fire service (calFire) said in a statement. ‘The winds will cause increased fire activity.’
Helpless locals are now turning to the maps to assess the damage remotely, learning through thousands of pictures which homes have been razed, and those which were miraculously spared.

Palisades Charter High School was also used in MTV’s Teen Wolf (pictured), starring Dylan O’ Brien
A Eaton fire map shows 3,800 inspected structures, including Mandy Moore’s family home, in the mountainous area north of LA – about 24 per cent of the evacuation zone which was decimated by fire.
California fire commander Kevin Bohall said 1,422 of the structures they’ve reached so far were entirely destroyed. A further 212 sustained some level of damage.
Among the carnage and devastation, the map shows four houses in a row that somehow still stand seemingly untouched – while surrounded by ash and rubble.
LA city Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said ‘there are still active fires that are burning within the Palisades area, making it extremely, extremely dangerous for the public.
‘There’s no power, there’s no water, there’s broken gas lines, and we have unstable structures.’
Efforts will ramp up further as the blazes are contained, but an urgent weather warning issued on Sunday revealed there is still a heightened risk for the next 72 hours.
Officials warned the ash can contain lead, arsenic, asbestos and other harmful materials.
Authorities issued a rare ‘particularly dangerous situation’ red flag warning – which was also issued the day before the initial fires broke out last week.

Pictured: Lindsay Lohan as Anna (pictured left) and Chad Michael Murray as Jake (pictured right) on the set of Freaky Friday
The Eaton blaze has burned through 14,117 acres of land, an estimated 7,000 structures and 16 people have been found dead in the charred rubble, making it the fifth deadliest fire on record in California even as it still tears through the mountains.
The inferno is 27 per cent contained, but there are mounting fears that the wild weather forecast for the next 72 hours will only fuel the flames and make it harder to contain.
But Eaton’s size has been eclipsed by the Palisades fire spreading closer to the coast, which has ripped through celebrity enclaves from Pacific Palisades to Malibu and threatened homes in Brentwood and Santa Monica.
The Palisades map shows the blaze that burned through 23,707 of prime southern California real estate, destroying the homes of A-listers including Miles Teller, Paris Hilton and Mel Gibson and razing entire neighborhoods to the ground.
It spread from the celebrity enclave of Pacific Palisades up the coast to Malibu, where it destroyed the iconic houses along the beach.
Craig Fugate, who led the Federal Emergency Management Agency during the Obama administration, told the Los Angeles Times on Sunday LA is experiencing a natural disaster as significant as Hurricane Katrina was on New Orleans.
‘This is your Hurricane Katrina,’ he said.
‘It will forever change the community. It will be a touch point that everybody will remember, before and after.

Pictured: Firefighters put out a hot spot on the High School from the Palisades fire in Pacific Palisades on January 7
‘And for Los Angeles, this will become one of the defining moments of the community, the city and the county’s history.’
Fugate said the difference between flood and fire is what is left behind.
‘With wildfires, there’s nothing left but ash. It’s almost like a total erasure of their history.
‘For a lot of people, that’s going to be the compounding trauma. It’s not only that they lost their home, they lost their memories.’
Miles Bliss, for the National Weather Service, provided a grim update on Sunday afternoon, warning strong Santa Ana winds which fueled the infernos last week will intensify once again.
‘Critical fire weather conditions will be expected during this time so please be prepared to evacuate if told so by officials,’ he said.
The weather is expected to contribute to another stint of dangerous and potentially extreme fire conditions which could exacerbate the fires already burning and cause more new ones to pop up.
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