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The man, whose identity was not immediately known, can be heard telling his dog I’ve walked through those communities, or the absence of them, and it is absolutely shocking — and talked to families who are just looking at where their lives just were,
It’s hard to imagine it being worse. I mean, being up there. There’s certainly nothing a firefighter can do. There’s nothing water can do. It’s really like another planet,
And so, now you have thousands of Angelenos who have been traumatized one way or the other,
That’s drier than firewood. That’s drier than a matchstick,
said John Vaillant, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his book Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World and a part of the inaugural 2024 class of The Independent’s Climate 100 List I think this is way beyond current politics or climate denial or anything like that. And, I think Homo sapiens, our species, is built for resilience and is built for certain kinds of short memory. And, I think around trauma the natural instinct is to try to move on. And, unfortunately, what we’re finding and what therapists are finding is these events actually generate a lot of PTSD,
I have lived in California all my life and never seen that size of fire erupt so quickly in the direction of the Palisades."
Adriana Silva, a Los Angeles resident, told Newsweek When something terrible happens, people often try to look on the bright side or point out that someone else has it worse. Unfortunately, this approach isn't helpful—especially when lives have been completely turned upside down,
Giolitti-Wright explained These fast-moving, wind-driven infernos have created one of the costliest wildfire disasters in modern U.S. history,
AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jonathan Porter said It is based on a variety of sources, statistics and unique techniques to estimate the damage to property, job and wage losses, crops, infrastructure damage, interruption of the supply chain, auxiliary business losses and flight delays or cancellations,
Hurricane-force winds sent flames ripping through neighborhoods filled with multi-million-dollar homes. The devastation left behind is heartbreaking and the economic toll is staggering. To put this into perspective, the total damage and economic loss from this wildfire disaster could reach nearly 4 percent of the annual GDP of the state of California,
There’s just a long list of these chaparral-driven fires, causing immense damage to built-up areas,
We have been building homes deep into the fire zones. We know they’re fire zones, we know they’re dangerous, and yet City Hall and county government has constantly greenlit development in places of greater and greater risks,
The public has a perception that public agencies can always protect them. As an incident the size of the Woolsey Fire shows, this is not always possible,
the report said, lauding first responders for limiting the number of deaths to three L.A. County and all 29 fire departments in our county are not prepared for this type of widespread disaster. There are not enough firefighters in L.A. County to address four separate fires of this magnitude,
These are areas that are usually better protected,
said Robert Fovell, a professor of atmospheric and environmental sciences at the University of Albany It was not if, it was when
said Joe Scott, the chief fire scientist at Pyrologix, a wildfire risk consultancy that worked on the federal analysis Climate change is increasing the overlap between extremely dry vegetation conditions later in the season and the occurrence of these wind events,
he said in a recent YouTube address This whiplash sequence in California has increased fire risk twofold,
Swain said in a news release It would be fair to characterize this as well-anticipated from a meteorological standpoint.”
