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Smoke and flames rise while firefighters battle the Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake, north of Santa Clarita, California on Jan. 22, 2025. A gull flies past as the Hughes Fire burns north of Los ...
Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said more than 4,000 firefighters were battling the Hughes Fire, which broke out in the Santa Clarita Valley Wednesday morning and spread to cover ...
At about 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, a huge column of smoke was spotted in the wilderness near Santa Clarita, prompting first responders to request four aircraft and 50 fire engines, according to the ...
Santa Clarita (/ ˌ s æ n t ə k l ə ˈ r iː t ə /; Spanish for "Little St. Clare") is a city in northwestern Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California.With a 2020 census population of 228,673, it is the third-most populous city in Los Angeles County, the 17th-most populous in California, and the 103rd-most populous city in the United States.
Santa Ana winds bring distinct weather to Southern California. Observing weather data, clues of past wind events are immediately clear. Nov. 12, 2023, Hawthorne, California: High 83F, with a bone ...
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 8 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).
The Copper Fire was a wildfire in Los Angeles County, Southern California, in June 2002. After igniting on June 5 near the city of Santa Clarita, the fire burned for a week and consumed 23,407 acres (9,472 hectares), damaging wildlife habitat and historic structures in the Angeles National Forest. It was fully contained on June 12.
A driving force behind many California wildfires, including the current ones, is the Santa Ana winds. These dry, gusty winds are a weather phenomenon that have shaped Southern California’s ...