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It’s been eight days since the largest blaze, the Palisades Fire, first sparked on Jan. 7, burning more than 23,000 acres. The Eaton Fire has burned more than 14,000 acres. The Eaton Fire has ...
At 3:00 a.m. Cal Fire announced that the fire had so far burned 45,549 acres (18,433 ha); [26] this made it the largest wildfire of the year in California, surpassing the 38,664-acre (15,647 ha) Lake Fire in Southern California's Santa Barbara County. [27] During the fire's first 12 hours, it grew at a rate of 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) per hour. [4]
Fires raging across Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people and put 150,000 people under evacuation orders. Roughly 10,000 structures were estimated to have been destroyed.
The increase in fire activity prompted evacuation orders for the communities of Seven Oaks and Angelus Oaks. [11] As of October 31, 2024, the fire remains at 43,978 acres (17,797 hectares) and is still 98 percent contained. [3] The Line Fire was visible from Redlands on September 29, 2024, twenty-four days after the fire began.
By the end of 2021, a total of 8,835 wildfires burned 2,568,948 acres (1,039,616 ha) across the U.S. state of California. [1] Approximately 3,629 structures were damaged or destroyed by the wildfires, and at least seven firefighters and two civilians were injured.
Most of the destruction has been the result of two blazes -- the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire -- which have destroyed more than 6,000 structures and killed at least 24 people.
Of the 291 fires recorded through the season, 105 were human-caused and 206 needed a full firefighting response. [50] The first significant fires occurred in May. On May 11, fires in the northwest forced the evacuations of Cranberry Portage (a community of about 650 people), several nearby cottage subdivisions, and Bakers Narrows Provincial Park.
See all the latest news on the wildfires: LA winds to intensify; officials 'grid-searching' for remains of victims killed This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: LA fire damage victims in ...