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The Landfill Fire merged with the Freeway Fire at 3:30 a.m. PDT on November 16, 2008. At approximately 7:00 a.m. PDT the two fires were officially renamed the Triangle Complex Fire. Around 12:45 p.m. the Triangle Complex Fire had been renamed once again to the Freeway Complex Fire still using the OCFA incident number CA-ORC-08075221. [3]
Climate change in California has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century. [4] [5]Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California have grown more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by ...
The Jesusita Fire was a wildfire that began at approximately 1:45 PM on May 5, 2009, in the hills of Santa Barbara, California. The fire burned 8,733 acres (35.34 km 2), destroyed 80 homes and damaged 15 more before being 100% contained. [43] The La Brea Fire began near La Brea Creek in Santa Barbara County, inside of Los Padres National Forest ...
Another fire is ablaze in Southern California, igniting Thursday near San Diego, continuing weeks of blazes in Southern California.. The Border 2 Fire was discovered around 2:30 p.m. PT in the ...
The La Brea Fire was a fast-moving 2009 wildfire which occurred in Southern California in the United States. The fire began near La Brea Creek in Santa Barbara County, in the Los Padres National Forest. [1] The fire started burning on August 8, and just 5 days later on August 13 had grown by 10,000 acres, or 40 km 2. [2] When the wildfire was ...
An aircraft flies to drop fire retardant over the area of a wildfire burning near Pacific Palisades on the west side of Los Angeles during a weather driven windstorm on Jan. 7, 2025. California ...
A map of evacuation orders and warnings for the Palisades Fire in California, as of Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. Areas in red are under evacuation orders and areas in yellow are under evacuation warnings.
The lake in the park is often used to fill fire fighting helicopters when responding to fires in the area. [12] It was used during the Triangle Fire in 2008 as the fire was threatening the eastern side of the city of Brea; including the Hollydale, Olinda Village, and Olinda Ranch communities, alongside Carbon Canyon Regional Park. [13]