Toppled tree drags power lines onto cars in Lake Balboa

Powerful winds toppled a large tree onto power lines, that then fell onto around 10 cars in Lake Balboa Thursday.

Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters responded to 16611 W. Victory Blvd. between Balboa Boulevard and Hayvenhurst Avenue, where they found the cars were blocking  driveways and a tree on top of one car/

Video footage showed the tree fell onto one lane of Victory and downed power lines hovered over and covered some the cars.

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Officials from the Department of Water and Power and LAFD are at the scene to assess the damage.

Winds blew down a tree in San Fernando on Lucas Street on Thursday. It was blocking traffic in the streets between Orange Grove Avenue and Huntington Street.

A tree was blown down in the 1700 block of Locust Street in Pasadena on Thursday. Streets were blocked by the fallen tree near Allen Avenue.

The Pasadena Fire Department reported on social media the Public Works Department was responding to the fallen tree.

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