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There was a ongoing series of wildfires in the U.S. state of California. A series of fires in Southern California, specifically in the Greater Los Angeles area, have caused at least 28 deaths, thousands of destroyed structures, evacuations and widespread power outages in January 2025.
A wildland fire engine associated with FIRESCOPE mopping up a hotspot during the Railroad Fire in 2017. FIRESCOPE (backronym: Firefighting Resources of Southern California Organized for Potential Emergencies) is a system for efficient interagency resource coordination system for fire and other emergencies in the southern California region of the United States.
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 14 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).
President Donald Trump, center, looks on with California Gov. Jerry Brown, right, and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom as they view damage from wildfires in Paradise, California, on Nov. 17, 2018.
A series of major storms in 2023 helped California emerge from a multi-year drought, but dry conditions have started to return in the central and southern parts of the state. Trump has now directed the federal government again to route more water in the system it controls to farmers and cities.
Multiple agency coordination center (MACC): The MACC is a central command and control facility responsible for the strategic, or "big picture" of a disaster. A MACC is often used when multiple incidents are occurring in one area or are particularly complex for various reasons such as when scarce resources must be allocated across multiple requests.
LOS ANGELES − Much of fire weary Southern California received relief in the form of rain over the weekend, bringing the fires surrounding Los Angeles nearer to complete containment.. The Eaton ...
Cedar Fire (southern California) Show map of southern California The Cedar Fire was a massive, highly-destructive wildfire , which burned 273,246 acres (1,106 km 2 ) of land in San Diego County, California , during October and November 2003.