More Than 80 Pets Flown Out of Los Angeles in Emergency Rescue Flight amid Wildfires [Video]

More than 80 pets boarded emergency rescue flights out of Los Angeles this week amid the raging wildfires — and they’re now safe and adoptable.

On Saturday, Jan. 11, the Best Friends Animal Society shared a press release detailing how 84 pets — including 58 cats and 26 dogs — made their way to Hollywood Burbank Airport in Los Angeles County from animal shelters around the area.

According to Best Friends, one of the largest no-kill animal sanctuaries in the U.S., the animals were moved out of “overcrowded” city shelters — including the Los Angeles County Animal Shelter in Lancaster — that have been heavily impacted by the L.A. fires since they began burning on Tuesday, Jan. 7.

“In the rush to evacuate a disaster such as the Palisades and Eaton fires, often pets can escape or become separated from their owners,” Best Friends writes in its press release. “It then becomes the work of …