How Santa Ana winds fueled the deadly fires in Southern California
The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region sees about 10 Santa Ana wind events a year on average, typically occurring from fall into January. When conditions are dry, as they are right now, these winds can become a severe fire hazard.
The iconic landscape of Los Angeles County and its surrounding region have been forever transformed by a massive, multi-front firestorm that has leveled an area more than twice the size of ...
The Palisades Fire, the largest and the first to spark, has grown quickly because of the dry and vicious Santa Ana winds after igniting Tuesday morning. As of Friday, the fire has scorched through ...
Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.
The reality of fire damage is hard to take in — here's a look at the devastation so far. The Palisades Fire alone has ...
Thousands of people have been forced to flee after "unprecedented" Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires ravage Los Angeles County ...
A super scooper plane fighting the Palisades Fire struck a drone on Thursday, leaving it out of commission until at least ...
Strong winds are fueling fires and kicking up dust, leading to dangerously poor air quality across the South Coast Air Basin.
The National Weather Service has issued another rare Particularly Dangerous Situation warning in anticipation of Monday's Santa Ana wind event.
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