Los Angeles

Los Angeles
LA from the air in 2007, three years before The Fall
Location type	City
Status	Destroyed; Bombed by National Guard
Description	Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California
Appearances	All of Season 1 and episode one of Season 2a

“	Morning Los Angeles, hope you got your flu shot! Reports in five states that a strange virus is going around, so if you're not feeling well go home, take care of yourself.	”
	— Radio broadcast announces the start of the outbreak., Fear the Walking Dead

Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California, and is the second largest city in The United States of America in terms of size and population. It is the principle setting for season one of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead.

“	“Los Angeles is a place of immigrants, reinvention, rebirth. You start with characters who are at different stages. Alicia has dreams and ambitions. You have a son who's dealing with drug addiction and a new family unit. You have exes, resentment from a son who feels replacements who are soon-to-be step siblings. All of that is part of the fabric of Los Angeles.”	”
	— Gale Anne Hurd

At the beginning of the outbreak, Los Angeles is operating in a state of 'business as normal,' despite there being outbreaks spreading throughout the city. Other than rumors, the general population of the city seem unaware of what is happening. Some citizens, such as Madison Clarke's neighbor Susan, witness zombie activity, as well as Madison's son Nick and a junkie, who also witnesses a zombie attack in a drug den situated in an Abandoned church.

L.A. at the start of the outbreak

By the end of the second day, there are signs that the outbreak is starting to spread and have been noticed by people within the city. In one incident that went viral via the internet, a man who had been involved car crash on a highway off-ramp attacks an EMT who was attending to him. Several California Highway Patrol officers unsuccessfully attempt to subdue the man with their batons. Since this proved ineffective, they are forced to open fire. Other than being staggered and forced to one

The junkie who witnessed Gloria in the church

knee, the man does not seem effective and does not go down until one officer shoots him in the head. The whole incident is captured on camera by news helicopters and bystanders, as well as witnessed personally by Travis and Madison.

By the third day, even more Los Angelenos are starting to become aware of the outbreak thanks to the increased police activity on the streets as well as the aforementioned leaks on the internet. Some citizens, including police officers who are aware that something is awry, begin to leave the city, causing traffic jams on the highways.

A police-involved shooting of a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles incite protests by concerned citizens who are unaware of the fact the homeless man was a zombie and believed it was just another case of police brutality. (The incident with the homeless man was one of an increasing number of such incidents over the past forty-eight hours). As the tensions and unease increase, the shooting of a woman (also a zombie and witnessed by Chris) at the scene causes mass panic. This incident sparks a full-scale riot in the downtown area. This grants infected individuals the ability to attack and kill people without much notice. Riot police are dispatched to contain the riot, but many are also attacked by the infected amidst the chaos. As the riot spirals out of control, the city's power grid begins to sporadically fail, causing rolling blackouts in the downtown area and outlying suburbs. At about this time, Flight 462 took off from LAX bound for Phoenix.

The riot continued to rage in the middle of the city and into the early hours of the following morning, allowing the outbreak to spread even further. Heavily armed units of the LAPD are seen shooting undead doctors and patients at a hospital which has been overrun. It can be assumed that the fire department becomes inoperative, as a massive blackout plunges the entire city into darkness, revealing fires in the streets and neighborhoods as even more panicked people tried flee the city. The next day, the Governor of California signs a state executive order mobilizing the National Guard and they proceed to enter the city to aid the ailing LAPD.

Soldiers clearing a suburb of Los Angeles

The National Guard proceed to deploy search-and-destroy squads to find and destroy the infected. They have also set up twelve safe zones throughout the city and suburbs. Outside the zones, many infected and uninfected corpses lay in the streets, indicating that the military is indiscriminately executing both the infected and civilians outside the safe-zones- possible due to them believing that the uninfected had been exposed. Fires rage throughout the city. The civilians within the safe zones are assured that the National Guard are on the offensive, but this is untrue.

The National Guard storms the library

Unbeknown to the civilians in the safe zones, the situation in Los Angeles is spiraling out of control, and the military prepares to initiate "Operation Cobalt," a plan to evacuate all of its personnel from the city and humanely terminate any survivors. A refugee Centre has been set up in a nearby community college, with doctors treating the wounded and National Guardsmen rounding up civilians at risk of infection. It is also revealed that, in a fit of panic, the military locked up at least 2,000 infected and uninfected people in one of their medical compounds situated inside the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, dooming all the uninfected inside.

L.A. at night on the fourteenth day/morning of the fifteenth day

By day fifteen of the outbreak, Los Angeles is shown to be in ruins. There are no man made lights to be seen in the city. Several buildings and city blocks, including iconic skyscrapers like One California Plaza and the Paul Hastings Tower, are on fire. The streets are either empty or full of infected, partially due to Daniel Salazar releasing those trapped inside the sports arena. The highways leading out of the city are jammed up with hundreds of abandoned cars, and the city is completely devoid of any man-made light. With Operation Cobalt in effect and the last major refugee center overrun by the infected, the military officially abandons the city. As the survivors drive through the city on their way to Strands house, they find the streets empty and see tendrils of smoke marring the skyline.

L.A. after the outbreak

In the first episode of season two, Los Angeles is shown being firebombed by the military in a desperate attempt to contain the infection, with the entire city in flames. The few survivors that managed to escape do so on boats, casting off into the Pacific Ocean as the city is destroyed.

Los Angeles is firebombed by the military

Places of note

• Temple Hospital
• Sisters of Mercy Hospital
• Center for Disease Control
• Paul R. Williams High School
• Clark Home
• Liza's Home
• LAX

Notable Residents

• Travis Manawa (Is dead)
• Chris Manawa (Is dead)
• Nick Clark (Is dead)
• Madison Clark (Is dead)
• Alicia Clark
• Matt Sale (Undead)
• Liza Ortiz (Is dead)
• Art Costa (Is dead)
• Tobias (Unknown)
• Calvin (Undead)
• Daniel Salazar
• Griselda Salazar (Is dead)
• Ofelia Salazar (Is dead)
• Victor Strand

Image Gallery

Driving past a crashed helicopter beside the LA river on the way to Strands house

Los Angeles burning

Pillars of smoke over the LA skyline

Members of the National Guard walk down a desserted street

Los Angeles with no power

Entrance to the safe zone set up in El Serreno

Riots on the streets of LA

National Guard restrain Madison

Los Angeles burns in promotional image

Grislda after being injured during the riots

LA without electricity

Venice Beach

LA looses power

Map of the safe zones in Los Angeles

Member of the CDC in LA

Traffic map showing the riots sparked by the death of the infected homless man

Los Angeles Memorial Stadium, which housed two thousand infected

Blocked freeway leading out of LA

Dodger Stadium