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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).
The Bernardo Fire in San Diego's Rancho Bernardo community near Camino Del Norte and the 15 Freeway sparked Wednesday and and could reach 100 acres, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said ...
The Friars Fire broke out just after 12:30 p.m. local time, according to Cal Fire. It is 0% contained. The San Diego Fire Department confirmed it is at the scene battling the vegetation fire ...
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. [2] [3] The fire's rapid growth was driven by the Santa Ana winds, causing the fire to spread at a rate of 3,600 acres (15 km 2) per hour. [2]
The photochemical smog formation diagram. (Based on U 6.3.3 in mrgsciences.com [20]) Photochemical smog, often referred to as "summer smog", is the chemical reaction of sunlight, nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere, which leaves airborne particles and ground-level ozone. [21]
The "large and growing" Fairmount Fire was burned at least 40 acres southwest of the campus, which is not under any threat, according to the San Diego Police Department. The blaze remains at 0% ...
While the Bel-Air fire in 1961, which destroyed 484 homes, and the Mandeville Canyon fire in 1978, which destroyed 230 homes, are often cited for the scale of their destruction, the 1991 Tunnel ...
The blaze—dubbed the Border 32 Fire due to it being the thirty-second fire of significance for the year of 2022 in close proximity to the United States-Mexican border—sparked at 2:15 PM PDT off Barrett Lake Road and state Route 94 in the Barrett Junction area just southeast of Dulzura and was initially pegged at 30 acres in size but with a dangerous-to-critical rate of spread as it moved ...