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The Eaton Fire was among the biggest of multiple wildfires that erupted on Jan. 7 and spread quickly in powerful Santa Ana Winds across the Los Angeles area. Photographs and video show sparks or ...
A map of evacuation orders and warnings for the Border 2 Fire in California, as of January 24, 2025. Areas in red are under evacuation orders and areas in yellow are under evacuation warnings ...
Officials are still investigating the cause of the fire. An area around a Southern California Edison electrical transmission tower in Eaton Canyon has become a focus of their inquiry. Altadena ...
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 ...
If those power lines were a substantial cause of the fire, that could be enough to recover billions of dollars in damages from the utility, even if it complied with regulations, legal experts said.
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).
On December 24, the Thomas Fire grew to 281,620 acres (1,139.7 km 2), after the fires from a back-burning operation completely merged into the Thomas Fire's northwestern flank, [70] [71] though containment of the wildfire also increased to 86%.
Nearly 250,000 people and businesses remain without power Thursday as wildfires continue to rage across Southern California.. As of about 1:15 p.m. ET, 249,515 outages had been reported, according ...