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A firefighter uses a hose at the site of a wildfire, named the Lilac Fire, in the Bonsall area of San Diego County, California, U.S., January 21, 2025. Start date: Jan. 21, 2025 Size in acres: 85
The Palisades and Eaton fires, which have both been burning since January 7 in Los Angeles County, are now mostly contained. The Palisades fire is now 87 percent contained while the Eaton fire is ...
Fires continue to rage across Southern California, with the Hughes Fire exploding to more than 10,000 acres in hours. Critical fire conditions persist across the region, with Fire Weather Warnings ...
The following day, the fire reached 70 percent containment. [129] As of 10:30 a.m. PST on January 16, the fire had reached 98 percent containment. [130] The fire then reached 100 percent containment on the same day after burning 799 acres of land. [131]
As of 7:15 p.m. PT, the fire had burned 566 acres and was at 0% containment, according to Cal Fire. The department said the blaze had a "dangerous rate'' of spread in an earlier update.
According to statistics published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), a total of 7,127 wildfires burned a total of 324,917 acres (131,489 hectares) in the U.S. state of California in 2023. This was below the state's five-year average of 1,722,059 acres (696,893 ha) burned during the same period.
The largest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire, is more than 33 square miles. That’s half the land size of Washington, D.C. A second fire, the Eaton Fire, is now more than 22 square miles.
The 1929 Smith River Bridge, also known as the Hiouchi Bridge or Bridge Wo. 1-06, was a rare example of a cantilever highway truss bridge within California, until it was demolished in 1989. [11] The two-lane road bridge carried U.S. Highway 199 across the Smith River.