California's wildfire season may now be year-round
Randy Mann.
JAKE PARRISH/Press
Last week’s horrendous wildfires in the Los Angeles region continue to make worldwide headlines. As of the weekend, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced with over 12,300 structures either heavily damaged or destroyed, including precious local landmarks. Damage from these blazes is likely to become the costliest in U.S. history. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused damages of around $195 billion.
As of the weekend, it’s not entirely certain what caused these massive and catastrophic wildfires. However, once they started, the strong “Santa Ana” winds, combined with very dry conditions, helped the wildfires to explode to what became one of the worst wildfires in California and U.S. history. The Palisades Fire, one of the largest ones, combined with the other fires, has burned approximately 40,000 acres of land in Southern California.
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