Santa Ana winds have weakened considerably since the middle of the week, but the National Weather Service is warning that the air is still dangerously dry.
Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, the face of the youth movement against global warming, joined her Los Angeles peers in a planned climate strike Friday.
Dangerous fire conditions have been present in L.A. and Ventura counties since 11 p.m. Tuesday, with a top wind gust of 78 mph recorded in the Santa Monica Mountains on Wednesday. Unless it’s canceled early, this period of dangerous fire weather would be at least 91 hours long. That’s unusually long for a red flag warning; most last one or two days, according to the weather service.broke out in Ventura County just south of Santa Paula and rapidly spread. By Friday afternoon, the fire had calmed and the threat to Santa Paula had diminished. But the evacuations were still in place.
The cause was unknown. Southern California Edison told regulators Friday that it had reenergized a 16,000-volt power line 13 minutes before the fire broke out. Edison had earlier turned off the line because of strong winds.The Maria fire broke out as crews battled multiple fires across Southern California, including blazes in
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