Palisades Fire: 0% containment, at least 15,832 acres.
Eaton Fire: 0% containment, at least 10,600 acres.
Hurst Fire: 10% containment, at least 855 acres.
Lidia Fire: 40% controlled, at least 348 acres.
Sunset Fire: 0% containment, at least 60 acres.
According to the Washington Post, hurricane-force gusts that reached around 90 mph fuelled several fires that began Tuesday in the Los Angeles region.
Images and videos captured from the impacted areas show a devastating scene of what seems to be a raging cyclone, with embers being transported by strong winds.
Southern California’s terrain is “ultra-flammable,” according to the Washington Post, since there hasn’t been any rain after the hot and dry summer.
John Abatzoglou, a climatologist at the University of California in Merced, told The Post that “the fuels remain very available to burn as Southern California has yet to see the arrival of winter rains,
Leaving fuels parched after one of the warmest summers on record.” “We wouldn’t be facing these fires if the area had received even nearly normal rainfall this autumn and winter.”
