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Wildfire smoke from the Southern California wildfires seen over Santa Monica State Beach, January 8, 2025 Winds blew wildfire smoke across Los Angeles, leading to several "very unhealthy" air quality index readings of over 200, with the PM2.5 of the Harrison ES station reaching 184.1 µg/m 3 , or 36.8 times the annual World Health Organization ...
Government agencies and volunteers worked together to mitigate the effects of the fires. According to the state of California's Consolidated Response web page, "There are 17 active fires in Southern California. The priority for fighting fires as of 19:30 on October 21 is the Buckweed, Witch, Harris, Canyon, Ranch, Santiago, and Sedgewick Fires."
At least 9,093 separate wildfires charred 1,520,362 acres (6,152.69 km 2) of land in the US state of California in 2007. [1] Thirty of those wildfires were part of the Fall 2007 California firestorm, [5] which burned approximately 972,147 acres (about 3,934 km 2, or 1,520 mi 2) of land from Santa Barbara County to the U.S.–Mexico border. [6]
Federal investigators are searching for the suspects, caught on surveillance footage, allegedly stealing fire equipment from a U.S. Forest Service strike team during a Southern California ...
A map of evacuation orders and warnings for the Palisades Fire in California, as of 8:30 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. Areas in red are under evacuation orders and areas in yellow are under ...
Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on the LA fires for Thursday, Jan. 9. For the latest updates on the Los Angeles wildfires in California, please read USA TODAY'S live updates for ...
The Etiwanda Fire was a wildfire in the San Bernardino National Forest in the foothills north of Rancho Cucamonga. [1] The fire started on April 30, 2014, during Santa Ana wind conditions of high temperatures and strong winds. On the first day, four schools and more than 1,500 homes were evacuated; residential evacuation orders were canceled ...
At least five people are dead and many more are injured as a series of devastating fires grow uncontained across Southern California amid dry and windy conditions, leaving officials scrambling to ...