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The Woolsey Fire was a wildfire that started in Los Angeles County and spread north to neighboring Ventura County, both located in the U.S. state of California. The fire ignited on November 8, 2018 and wasn't fully contained until November 21, 2018. The fire burned 96,949 acres (39,234 hectares) of land, destroyed 1,643 structures, [ 4] killed ...
On Tuesday, December 5, 2017, at 10:45 p.m. PST, Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in Ventura County, due to the Thomas Fire. [135] On his visit to Ventura on Saturday to survey the damage, Brown called the fires a "terrible tragedy for so many people." This is the new normal. We're about ready to have firefighting at Christmas.
List of California wildfires. Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires.
California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, [103] and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti declared a state of emergency for the city. [104] The largest fire was the Thomas Fire , which grew to 281,893 acres, becoming California's largest modern wildfire at the time, since surpassed by the ...
July 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM. Wildfires break out across California: Latest fire and smoke maps. Wildfires are exploding across the West, especially in California, where the Park Fire has now grown ...
The Ranch Fire (or Castaic Fire) burned along the Los Angeles-Ventura county line about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Santa Clarita, [48] in the Angeles and Los Padres national forests. It surrounded the Ventura County community of Piru [74] [75] and also threatened the communities of Fillmore, Ventura and Ojai. [48]
The Springs Fire was a wildfire in Ventura County, California in May 2013. Although the fire burned only 15 homes, [2] it threatened 4,000. This threat passed when rain shower from few narrow cold-frontal rainbands moved through the California area because of a low-pressure system off the coast. Some places got more than half an inch of rain.
By 11 a.m., the fire’s size jumped 40,000 acres from early Saturday’s assessment of 307,368 acres as flames spread at a rate of 5,000 acres an hour. Cal Fire said most of the gains over 24 ...