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On the Ground During L.A.’s Wildfire Emergency
With four fires raging, tens of thousands have evacuated and others are confronting the precarity of where they live.
Harrowing escapes from Los Angeles wildfires were made by foot, by car or by the grace of strangers
Los Angeles is burning, with fire experts saying this is the worst wildfire situation the city has ever seen. And while high profile celebrities have been posting on social media about the losses of ...
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How Santa Ana Winds Fueled The LA Fires
Jon Keeley, a research ecologist in California with the U.S. Geological Survey and adjunct professor at UCLA, explains what ...
California wildfires live updates: 179,000 under evacuation orders; L.A. County sheriff says some areas look ‘like a bomb was dropped’
Sheriff Robert Luna said 179,783 people are under evacuation orders due to the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst and Lidia fires in Los Angeles County. Another 200,000 residents are under evacuation warnings.
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Firefighters make progress slowing wildfires while Los Angeles grapples with scope of devastation
Crews were able to knock down a major threat that broke out Wednesday evening in the Hollywood Hills, and by morning had ...
Here's the role climate change may be playing in deadly SoCal wildfires, experts say
The Santa Ana winds are driving these wildfires to spread even faster and are making it harder for firefighters to gain control. Here's what climate experts say about what they are observing.
What makes the Santa Ana winds so destructive?
The Santa Ana winds become particularly dangerous when combined with other climate conditions such as drought, which increases the risk of wildfires like the ones currently raging in the Los Angeles ...
California Wildfire Live Updates: Sunset Fire Fully Contained In Hollywood Hills—As Palisades, Eaton Fires Still Burn
Wednesday, 1:25 p.m. PST The Palisades Fire in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades—an affluent coastal neighborhood—exploded to 15 ...
How the Santa Ana winds are fueling deadly wildfires in Los Angeles
The Santa Ana Winds are named after a Los Angeles-area mountain range, but the source of them actually comes from hundreds of ...
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How Santa Ana winds fueled the deadly fires in Southern California
Jon Keeley, a research ecologist in California with the U.S. Geological Survey and adjunct professor at UCLA, explains what ...
As the worst disaster raged around them, hired hands kept working to pay the bills
Even as fire turned Santa Monica an apocalyptic shade of orange, hired hands went about their business as if it were just ...