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Airtankers get water from the ocean to fight the Palisades Fire Jan. 9, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. / Credit: Apu Gomes / Getty Images
As multiple deadly wildfires burn across Los Angeles and hundreds of thousands of residents flee their homes, the lack of water is impeding firefighters' efforts to fight the flames.. More than ...
Some fire hydrants ran dry in LA due to enormous water demand and infrastructure problems. President-elect Trump wrongly blamed a separate debate over water from northern California.
[9] [10] On January 3, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) forecast a critical risk of fire weather that would occur on January 8, and by January 7, on the first day of critical fire weather in the area, [11] [12] the SPC forecasted an extremely critical risk for Fire Weather for January 8.
Other fires, like the 2023 Maui fires and the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Northern California, have caused hydrants to go dry in the past, and it seems L.A. will need to go back to the drawing board if ...
Cal Fire’s fleet of tankers then drops fire retardant onto the terrain below. Read On The Fox News App The Grumman S-2T tanker, with its two turboprop engines, is the agency’s workhorse and ...
The Santa Anas are katabatic winds (Greek for "flowing downhill") arising in higher altitudes and blowing down towards sea level. [7] The National Weather Service defines Santa Ana winds as "a weather condition [in southern California] in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions".
Ken Clark, AccuWeather's California Weather Expert, who has been forecasting weather in the state for 50 years, ranks the event among his top two or three in terms of severity. This situation is ...