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The Jesusita Fire was a wildfire that began at approximately 1:45 PM on May 5, 2009, in the hills of Santa Barbara, California. The fire burned 8,733 acres (35.34 km 2 ), destroyed 80 homes and damaged 15 more before being 100% contained.
The Station Fire was the largest wildfire of the 2009 California wildfire season. It burned in the Angeles National Forest , igniting on August 26, 2009, near the U.S. Forest Service Angeles Station 11 ranger station on the Angeles Crest Highway , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and burned through October 16.
The La Brea Fire was a fast-moving 2009 wildfire which occurred in Southern California in the United States. The fire began near La Brea Creek in Santa Barbara County, in the Los Padres National Forest. [1] The fire started burning on August 8, and just 5 days later on August 13 had grown by 10,000 acres, or 40 km 2. [2]
At least two people are dead, hundreds of buildings have burned and tens of thousands of Southern Californians remain under evacuation orders after fast-moving wildfires exploded in the Los ...
Waking up in Los Angeles this morning was nothing short of devastating. Five major fires spanning nearly 14,000 acres have engulfed California's most populous city, marking the most destructive ...
Firefighters make progress: But Southern California wildfire rages on Some farmers lost crops, farm buildings − and homes Agricultural damage estimates from the fire reached $2.4 million and are ...
Climate change in California has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century. [4] [5]Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California have grown more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by ...
Firefighters continued to battle a fast-moving Southern California wildfire that by Saturday had swallowed up dozens of homes and burned over 20,000 acres.. The Mountain Fire, which erupted ...