Hell on Earth: Pacific Palisades Fire burns into the history books as LA’s most destructive blaze ever

A trio of raging wildfires reduced entire Los Angeles neighborhoods to ash and gutted historic Tinsel Town landmarks — with one blaze becoming the City of Angels’ most destructive of all time less than 36 hours after it began.

The indefatigable Pacific Palisades inferno carved a path of devastation in western LA County Wednesday, a densely populated area containing some of the most coveted real estate in the country, including multimillion-dollar celebrity homes.

The blaze claimed more than 1,000 structures and devoured nearly 16,000 acres by early Wednesday evening as it burned completely out of control, edging perilously close to quintessential LA touchstones like Sunset Boulevard, the Santa Monica Pier and the Hollywood sign.

The Palisades fire and two other blazes nearby — Eaton fire north of Pasadena and the Hurst fire in San Fernando Valley — forced 70,000 Angelenos to abandon their homes, including a who’s who of celebrities whose mansions either burned to the ground or were in imminent danger of being consumed.

Palisades High School — made famous by movies like “Teen Wolf,” “Carrie” and “Freaky Friday” — burned to the ground as the blaze ripped through the Southland.

At least five people have been killed and many more were injured as 100 mph Santa Ana winds fueled the conflagrations, helping it spread throughout Southern California and thwarting firefighters’ best efforts to contain it.

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson’s 34-year-old son, Chet Hanks, took to Instagram to mourn his childhood home as the wildfire ravaged the Los Angeles area.

“The neighborhood I grew up in is burning to the ground [right now],” he wrote on Instagram. “Pray for the Palisades,” he added.

Although his famous parents have yet to speak out on the destruction, it’s likely they had to evacuate out of harm’s way.

Ben Affleck was spotted fleeing his $20.5 million Pacific Palisades home on Tuesday, TMZ reporting the 52-year-old actor sought refuge at his ex-wife Jennifer Garner’s house nearby.

Actors Adam Brody and Leighton Meester’s lavish $6.5 million Los Angeles home was another celebrity abode leveled by flames, photos obtained by Page Six showing their five-bathroom, six-bedroom house destroyed beyond repair.

Singer and “This Is Us” actress Mandy Moore also posted on Instagram that her children’s school in Altadena was obliterated and that she and her family had evacuated their home.

“Grateful for my family and pets getting out last night before it was too late (and endless gratitude to friends for taking us in and bringing us clothes and blankets),” she wrote Wednesday.

The Palisades fire was already more destructive than the 2008 Sayre Fire, which destroyed 604 structures in Sylmar. Before that, a 1951 inferno in Bel Air burned nearly 500 homes, including those belonging to stars Burt Lancaster and Zsa Zsa Gabor, making it the most destructive fire in the city’s history.

Photos and videos both amateur and professional helped illustrate the hellish scale of the destruction as the nation watched in horror.

Harrowing video showed the near-complete devastation of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood near Santa Monica, the fire rendering the upscale community into a desolate wasteland resembling something out of a post-apocalyptic movie.

Other images showed entire blocks reduced to little more than building foundations, the once-bustling streets now littered with scorched and twisted metal beneath menacing skies darkened by ash and choking plumes of smoke.

“This is what’s left of the Pacific Palisades. The mall survived. Most everything else is gone,” a CBS correspondent wrote on X alongside the shocking footage. “Homes, apartment complexes… businesses.”

Aerial shots offered yet another grim vantage of the widespread wreckage, the Hollywood Hills shrouded in smoke as homes and businesses went up in flames.

Area residents gathered up their children, pets and whatever possessions they could fit in their vehicles before getting out of Dodge, fleeing their neighborhoods that now looked like war zones.

Pasadena resident Eddie De Ferrari told The Post that he hasn’t had time to process the devastating loss, after helping evacuate a senior center and checking on nearby homes to make sure no one is stranded.

“I’m currently in the fire zone helping out,” he explained. “There are many homes on fire. Altadena is burning heavily.”

Terrifying video also emerged of two men and their dog trapped indoors as ferocious flames came dangerously close their LA home.

“You’re going to be OK. You’re going to be OK, all right?” the man filming reassures the scared dog, his voice shaking as he pats its head.

“Oh s–t,” the man says in the clip, turning his camera to the fire outside.

The inferno, audibly roaring in the heavy winds, engulfs nearly everything in view on all sides of the home as smoke, ash and other debris fly by in the hellish scene — appearing to leave them with no escape.

At one point, the other man in the home asks the cameraman if they’re going to pack their bags and get out.

“Don’t worry about that, dude. Holy s–t,” he responds.

The pair confirmed that they had turned off their gas, eliminating the risk of an explosion. The cameraman is asked by his friend if they should open a window, which he quickly shuts down.

“Don’t open anything,” he says.

It was not immediately clear if the men and the dog escaped safely, according to Fox 11 Los Angeles.