Kenneth, Hurst, Woodley, Lidia, Sunset and Tyler firesSeveral smaller blazes also burned across the Los Angeles area, but most of them have been contained.TheHurst firebroke out in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles the night of Jan. 7, while other smaller ...
Another blaze, the Woodley Fire, broke out Wednesday morning near a Los Angeles nature reserve. That fire has not prompted evacuations, although Cal Fire warned that strong winds were pushing it southward. No part of any of these four major wildfires has been contained, according to Cal Fire....
One Los Angeles weather phenomenon did arrive on time, however — seasonal Santa Ana winds. These push inland air over California’s mountain ranges, with gusts growing warmer and drier as they barrel toward the coast. The winds exacerbated the drought by turning any vegetation in the area cris...
Local fire experts say Los Angeles and Durango are similar in topography. Durango doesn’t experience the hurricane-force Santa Ana winds that pushed the LA fires, but it does often have sustained winds of 30 mph and gusts over 40 mph, which can vault burning embers great distances. Perhaps ...
As they sat down and unpacked their lunch, Sara asked her dad why they couldn’t go any closer to the deer. He explained that sometimes if the mother smelled humans too close to her baby, she would be too afraid to come back. Sara and her father agreed that they would wait for the...
“The winds are expected to continue throughout today and even into Thursday as well, providing very little in terms of any relief,” he said. The situation prompted the Los Angeles Fire Department to take the rare step of putting out a plea for off-duty firefighters to help. It was too...
Gad revealed on Wednesday that he has “never” seen anything “near” the amount of “devastation” the recent fires have brought in his 20 years living in Los Angeles. “So many of my friends have lost their homes. So many firefighters are putting their lives on the line right now alon...
is not difficult to conclude that California wildfires are historical. Modern fires appear more destructive as Californians have developed residential living into more rural areas. It is also evident that most of the recent fires are man-made – arson, utility related, and homeless caused fires. ...
(Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times) Before the sniff test, the work at Canyon mirrored cleaning that occurred at other affected schools, including Lanai Road Elementary School in Encino and Roscomare Road Elementary School in Bel-Air. Shortly after the fires began, the dis...
The largest is now theSites Fire, in Colusa County, which was first reported Monday and quickly grew, reaching over 19,000 acres by early Thurssday. ThePost Fire, burning near Gorman, northwest of Los Angeles, spread to 15,690 acres, while thePoint Fire, in Sonoma, covered about 1,200...