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Read more:Southern California wildfires: Maps, evacuations, shelters. The Bridge fire, the largest of the four, was nearing 50,000 acres in size Wednesday afternoon, and was 0% contained. It began ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a grant to help reimburse the costs of fighting the Bridge and Airport fires, he said in a post on X Tuesday evening.
Line and Bridge Fires blaze in California, thousands of acres torched, thousands evacuated Cybele Mayes-Osterman and Claire Thornton, USA TODAY Updated September 13, 2024 at 7:51 PM
A line of firefighters fight back flames as they encroach on Pepperdine University's campus amid the Franklin Fire in Malibu, California, late the night of Monday, Dec. 9, 2024.
The warnings are set to remain through 6 p.m. local time for most valleys and mountains of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, according to the National Weather Service office in Los Angeles.
A civilian was injured in Southern California, where the largest fire currently active in the state is burning in steep, rugged terrain. Here’s where fires are burning in the state as of 1:30 p ...
[14] [15] At the time, the Thomas Fire was California's largest modern wildfire, which has since been surpassed by the Mendocino Complex's Ranch Fire in 2018. The December 2017 fires forced over 230,000 people to evacuate, with the 6 largest fires burning over 307,900 acres (1,246 km 2) and more than 1,300 structures. [16] [17]
California land area totals 99,813,760 or roughly 100 million acres, so since 2000, the area that burned annually has ranged between 90,000 acres, or 0.09%, and 1,590,000 acres, or 1.59% of the total land of California. [2] During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land.