Why Los Angeles, America's most fire-ready city, became overwhelmed by flames
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Los Angeles, America's most fire-ready city, became overwhelmed by flames

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Why Los Angeles, America's most fire-ready city, became overwhelmed by flames toggle caption Eric Thayer/AP The biggest of several wildfires still burning out of control in Los Angeles grew by more than 1,000 acres overnight. Sponsor Message "That's our fire hoses there," he says, pointing to his do it yourself set-up, "we saw this coming." "You have embers flying miles apart, fire ignition is extremely difficult to predict or control and it's happening simultaneously in so many places," she says. toggle caption Kirk Siegler/NPR "We have infrastructure and development that is a legacy of a period when we had less extreme conditions, climate wise," she says, "and we also had less, you know, fewer people."

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