Three separate fires -- Bridge, Line and Airport fires -- have torched parts of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. LOS ANGELES - California's wildfire season is in full force. So far, the Golden State has already seen nearly three times as much acreage burn ...
Los Angeles, city, seat of Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. It is the second most populous city and metropolitan area in the U.S. Home of the American entertainment industry, the city is also known for its pleasant weather, urban sprawl, tra
The map measures the cumulative burn area for each zone over that entire time: this can exceed 100 or even 200 percent if large fires are frequent enough, or the whole damn area burns down more than once. The California Fire Observatory combines longer-term data about forest cover with up-...
New fires ignite in Southern California Two new fires ignited Monday morning in Southern California, fire officials said. Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said at a press conference that the fires started within minutes of each other. The larger of the two fires, the "Peak Fire...
"This is also very overwhelming for the fire departments, especially in rapidly developing fires like the one in Paradise," said Fu, referring to the deadly 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California, which killed 85 people. The team evaluated the effectiveness of their mapping tool by running a si...
In its early decades Sacramento suffered several devastating floods and fires; subsequent measures (levees and masonry construction) alleviated these problems. A hub of river transportation since Sutter started a steamer service, Sacramento was the western terminus of the Pony Express and the first ...
The Fire Emergency Plan illustrates the scheme of the building and location of the main and fire exits for a safe evacuation, and clearly defines directions to them on the plan. Fire Emergency Plans are constructed on the case of unexpected or emergency situations, fires, hazardous leaks, natura...
People are turning to Snapchat to map out the Southern California wildfires Some jaw-dropping photos of the wildfires tearing through Southern California are turning up on Snapchat. The fires have been raging all day in heavily advertisement ...
San Francisco Earthquake, 1906: This earthquake is one of the most devastating in the history of California. The earthquake and resulting fires caused an estimated 3,000 deaths and $524 million in property loss. Damage in San Francisco resulting only from the earthquake was estimated at $20 mil...
California, which has long had hazard maps, passed a new law in 2018 requiring homeowners in high-risk areas to pass a defensible space inspection before buying or selling the property. Meanwhile, the population of the U.S. West in the so-called wildland-urban interface — the boundary w...