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Rank Event Date Firefighter Fatalities Coordinates Reference 1 September 11 attacks: September 11, 2001: 343 1]: 2 Great Fire of 1910: August 22, 1910
The fire killed at least 17 people and destroyed more than 9,000 buildings, becoming the fifth deadliest and the second most destructive wildfire in the history of the state of California. The cause of the fire is under investigation; news reports and lawsuits have focused on the possible involvement of power lines operated by electrical ...
The fire killed 85 people and destroyed almost 19,000 buildings in November 2018. The fire was active for 17 days. The fire started due to a faulty Pacific Gas and Electric power line that failed ...
The Palisades and Eaton fires – which have burned over 5,000 and 7,000 structures, respectively – are now the two most destructive fires on record in Southern California. These numbers are ...
The blaze has spread more than 13,000 acres in the Altadena-Pasadena area while the Palisades Fire has burned over 19,000 acres between the coastal California cities of Santa Monica and Malibu.
The Harris Fire was a major wildfire in southern San Diego County, California, that began on October 21, 2007, which burned 90,440 acres (366.0 km 2) before it was contained on November 5. Hotspots persisted until the fire was extinguished on November 16, making the Harris Fire the last of the October 2007 California wildfires to be ...
Up the coast from LA, the city of San Francisco boasts more than 1,800 firefighters for around 1.5 million residents of the city and nearby communities, while LA has roughly 3,500 firefighters ...
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 17 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5]The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).