Crazy fires in Los Angeles

Uther said:
Drought and the strongest winds for ten years apparently. Horrendous.
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Yeh not nice,

Seems to be happening more in the recent years


I have seen wildfires from the air in sept 2024, i was flying over in to greece athens airport and from the air you could see the redness of the fires on the ground on areas around coastlines , and the smoke trails go on for ever when the wind picks it up. With any form of wind the fire will spread in no time.
 
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Palisades: This was the first fire to break out yesterday and has so far burnt more than 1,000 structures. 37,000 residents are under an evacuation order and continues to blaze through 5,000 acres

Eaton: Two people have died and dozens more are injured - some with "significant injuries" - as a result of the Eaton fire near the city of Pasadena. It continues to burn through over 2,000 acres and 32,500 people have been evacuated so far

Hurst: The fire, which ignited near the Sylmar area of Los Angeles last night, has now grown to 500 acres, and 3,000 people have been evacuated from its surroundings

Woodley: The most recent of all the wildfires, the Woodley blaze, was just reported by California's fire authority in the last few hours. It's currently burning over 75 acres of terrain
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Current update from BBC live

Sadly 2 people have died and Eaton is at 2,000 acres burning now

 
wow that video reminds me of Japanese nuke photos.
Even wealthy peoples houses are mostly wood in the states?
 
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DJMK4 said:
How have they got wildfires in 20oc weather? is it really that warm?

they must have some really dry arid ground. Was this a purposely started fire?
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One of the reports I read earlier is that there was a garden fire that grew out of control due to the excessive winds
 
Ironically bbc report, partially heard, said rain before xmas had contributed to extent of problem now - whether that was atypical growth of shrub ?

Also hadn't understood the abandonnment of cars, presumably people thought they were hemmed in and took to foot, so emergency planning was inadequate.
 
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Climate Change - most destructive in LA's history...... so far
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Seems pretty bad over there
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Autumn rains didn't arrive theres been 0.13 inches of rain when normally it would be 4. Only going to get worse as the climate heats up its basically turning into desert
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A Desert is fine, a Desert has no trees, or foliage to burn, there is no wild fires in a Desert.

The problem with this fire is California had a long drought which killed off the foliage, then the last two years it rained quite a bit and caused new foliage and bush to grow and then this year they went straight back to a drought again - so when this new fire started spreading, it encountered a lot of fuel due to the foliage and bush that grew from the prior two years of rain.

This is why if you live in a semi arid climate, what you don't want is a sudden period of lots of rain because that brings flooding and it causes new bush to grow that future fires can use as fuel.

In Australia they now actually go around every year doing controlled burning off of new bush growth so that future fires won't have any fuel.
 
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Onscene TV on YT has some crazy footage - kind of like war reporter type stuff (without any talking).
 
There's a sad irony here that all this use of water failing to control any of it is making future fires worse/more prevalent.

At some point Californians must realise the city is unsustainable though the migration must surely accelerate now that the elite of the city are the ones losing their homes. Wonder if Hollywood will just completely ditch and move elsewhere?
 
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