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Los Angeles wildfires slow, still threaten suburbs
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9/13/2024
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Wildfires that have burned dozens of mountain homes near Los Angeles slowed on Thursday with
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cooler temperatures, but authorities warned that the blazes still threatened suburbs.
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Driven by triple-digit heat, gusting wind, and tender, dry vegetation,
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the three fires burned at speeds firefighters have never witnessed, scorching over 44,000 hectares.
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Massim Cournet reports.
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The firefighters have made some significant progress on them in the past 24 hours or so.
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You mentioned the line fire, 21% contained. That is pretty much a done deal. Firefighters
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confident they will be able to put it out in the next few hours and days. The airport fire,
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5% contained. And of course the bridge fire, that is the largest of them all,
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right now still burning out of control at 0% contained. In fact, tonight the latest news
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is that areas under an evacuation order have now been expanded, so encompassing a larger swath
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of the region. It's really rare to have three major fires burning around Los Angeles at the
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same time. In fact, the bridge fire, as we just mentioned, really exhibited some very unusual
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explosive behavior. It started off Sunday, slowly burning for two days, and then on Tuesday,
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it exploded to nine times its initial size within just a few hours. In fact, Tuesday morning,
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I woke up knowing that there was a small fire, and then by just a few hours later,
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I was driving in my neighborhood, and I saw in the distance what I thought was a major
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thunderstorm cloud, and it turns out it was that plume of ash and smoke from that bridge fire.
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I couldn't believe my eyes. And the fire sped upslope, thanks to some very strong winds
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threatening a popular ski resort in the region. Staff that was about to evacuate were forced to
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turn on snowmaking machines to humidify vegetation. That ski resort has now been saved. Elsewhere,
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unfortunately, dozens of homes have been lost, 13 people injured,
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one resident southeast of Los Angeles in the airport fire, describing what's left as a moonscape.
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