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It’s not as gusty, so that should help firefighters,
NWS meteorologist Allison Santorelli said
SCE does not know whether the damage observed occurred before or after the start of the fire,
it saidAnother round of gusty north to northeast winds will develop later Saturday into Sunday, then a stronger offshore wind event is possible between Monday night and Wednesday,
the NWS said
Still, the low humidities and the winds will combine to bring enhanced fire danger to the area. Residents are urged to stay tuned to latest information and remain vigilant in steps to protect your life and property.”
However, the agency warnedI’ve walked through those communities, or the absence of them, and it is absolutely shocking — and talked to families who are just looking at where their lives just were,
Vaillant said
It’s hard to imagine it being worse. I mean, being up there. There’s certainly nothing a firefighter can do. There’s nothing water can do. It’s really like another planet,
said VaillantAnd so, now you have thousands of Angelenos who have been traumatized one way or the other,
Vaillant continuedThat’s drier than firewood. That’s drier than a matchstick,
said John Vaillant, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his book Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World and a part of the inaugural 2024 class of The Independent’s Climate 100 ListI think this is way beyond current politics or climate denial or anything like that. And, I think Homo sapiens, our species, is built for resilience and is built for certain kinds of short memory. And, I think around trauma the natural instinct is to try to move on. And, unfortunately, what we’re finding and what therapists are finding is these events actually generate a lot of PTSD,
he said
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has officially requested the support of the California National Guard for both fires. They will be assisting us with traffic control and critical infrastructure protection,
Luna said
It looks like an atomic bomb dropped in these areas. I don't expect good news, and we're not looking forward to those numbers,
Luna told a press conferenceThere is great concern that fire weather conditions could become exacerbated given the antecedent conditions, little rain across the area since the spring of 2024, and another offshore wind event on top of all of what we have seen,
the National Weather Service said
I told the governor, local officials, spare no expense to do what they need to do and contain these fires."
After a meeting with senior advisers at the White House, Biden saidL.A. County and all 29 fire departments in our county are not prepared for this type of widespread disaster. There are not enough firefighters in L.A. County to address four separate fires of this magnitude,
Marrone said, noting
We have been building homes deep into the fire zones. We know they’re fire zones, we know they’re dangerous, and yet City Hall and county government has constantly greenlit development in places of greater and greater risks,
Miller saidThere’s just a long list of these chaparral-driven fires, causing immense damage to built-up areas,
Gray said,Climate change is increasing the overlap between extremely dry vegetation conditions later in the season and the occurrence of these wind events,
he said in a recent YouTube addressThe public has a perception that public agencies can always protect them. As an incident the size of the Woolsey Fire shows, this is not always possible,
the report said, lauding first responders for limiting the number of deaths to threeThese are areas that are usually better protected,
said Robert Fovell, a professor of atmospheric and environmental sciences at the University of Albany
It was not if, it was when
said Joe Scott, the chief fire scientist at Pyrologix, a wildfire risk consultancy that worked on the federal analysis