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Firefighters in Los Angeles are warning that increasing winds could potentially result in explosive fire growth from the existing wildfires.
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Firefighters in Los Angeles are warning that increasing winds could potentially result in explosive fire growth from the existing wildfires.
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The mayor of Los Angeles,
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Karen Bass, said they were preparing for any eventuality.
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At least 24 people are known to have died and more than 20 are missing.
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Some fires continue to burn out of control.
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Emma Vardy reports.
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The debris still smolders.
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Thousands of acres of damage still untouched by recovery teams.
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Today, roadblocks and patrols by the National Guard have visibly increased.
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There have now been more than 60 arrests in evacuated areas,
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mainly for looting and burglary.
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The criminals have decided that this is an opportunity,
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and I'm here to tell you that this is not an opportunity.
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You will be arrested, you will be prosecuted and you will be punished to the full extent of the law.
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Some have lost more than possessions.
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One of the victims of the Palisades fire was 32-year-old Rory Sykes,
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a child actor from the 90s British TV show Kiddy Capers.
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He lived with cerebral palsy and his mother says she escaped but could not save him.
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The biggest fear I had was that it might burn and hurt,
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because I think burning must be the most painful death.
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And the fire department chiefs said,
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no, he will have died of carbon monoxide poisoning first.
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I just can't believe my baby's not going to be here.
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The clean-up task is so vast it will stretch on for months.
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There have been promises by officials that the rebuilding process will be made as quick as possible
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by cutting red tape to help people put their lives back together.
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But there's frustration that in many places it's still too dangerous to start.
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And the job of rehousing people will take time.
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It will take months if not years.
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I know that in Hawaii it took at least temporary housing to occur for a year
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so we don't know what the situation will be here.
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All around signs of the trauma the city has suffered as the fires overwhelmed communities.
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As people try to escape from the oncoming flames in this part of Pacific Palisades many just abandoned their cars
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and you can imagine the sense of panic many just appearing to have crashed into each other as they tried to flee.
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you can see why they ran because here's what's left after the fire reached this spot not long after.
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23 people are still missing and many addresses are still to be searched for human remains.
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Well everyone in LA keeping a really close watch on the weather forecast.
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Let's look at that in more detail now and consider what it means for the firefighting efforts.
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I'm joined by Eric Holthaus,
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meteorologist and climate journalist at Currently Weather.
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Eric, thank you very much for joining us on BBC News.
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So what can LA expect as these winds strengthen again over the next couple of days?
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How strong will they get?
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Yeah, so thankfully, the winds won't be quite as strong as last week.
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But in Ventura County, which is a little bit north of Los Angeles,
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the winds might be a little bit stronger this time around.
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But in the areas where the fires are still burning,
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it won't be quite as bad as we saw last week.
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Yet, according to what we saw from the Daily Update,
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the news conference earlier today,
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the authorities clearly worried about what that could mean for the fire spreading potentially.
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And could it affect the ability of those aircraft,
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firefighting aircraft, to get up and drop loads of retardant and water?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I mean, like, I should definitely say
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that last week was one of the strongest wind storms ever recorded in the Los Angeles area.
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So being not quite as bad as that is still pretty bad.
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I mean, and the exact words from the National Weather Service were,
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this is about as bad as it gets.
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So yeah, I think that the winds will be strong enough to keep some firefighting aircraft on the ground,
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unfortunately, and we'll continue to see no rainfall in the forecast looking out.
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So all these warm winds are just going to further dry the vegetation out for any spark
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that might happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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A combination of factors that really isn't good then for the firefighting efforts.
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I mean, beyond this next phase,
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Eric, of strengthening winds, is there any relief in sight for LA?
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Will the conditions become calmer at all?
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Unfortunately, looking out about as far as we can with weather and climate models,
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we are seeing no rainfall in sight,
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at least through the end of January and potentially into February as well.
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This is really unusual because this is the peak of the rainy season in Southern California normally.
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So there has never been a year in the last 150 years of records
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that has not had at least a little bit of rainfall up to this point in mid-January
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and we are right now the driest start to the rainy season on record
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so we're seeing a little bit of those climate change signals coming through in this week, unfortunately.
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So obviously that has a huge impact in terms of filling up reservoirs and so on that the public need,
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that firefighters need.
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Yeah, I mean, I think that in this case,
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the amount of water that is available for firefighters is there.
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I mean, if needed be,
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they can use the scoops from the Pacific Ocean to drop to drop water.
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But but I think it's more about the the actual vegetation,
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the landscape, the trees and brush that are just drying out with this very dry air,
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making it almost like matchstick kindling to burn.
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OK, so obviously everyone keeping a very close eye on whether the conditions then are in place for future fires,
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which inevitably will come to burn as ferociously.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I think that that what we're seeing right now is kind of a sign of,
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you know, we've had 15 of the 20 most destructive wildfires in California history within the last 10 years.
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We're seeing that trend towards larger and more destructive fires as more people live closer into the mountains,
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into the brush.
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So unfortunately, this mix of really unusually dry weather and people being in the path,
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unfortunately, will likely continue at least for the next several weeks.
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OK, Eric, thank you very much.
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Eric Holthaus there, meteorologist.
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and in the next hour here on The Context we'll be talking to a captain with the LA Fire Department
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about what he and his colleagues might be facing over the next couple of days.
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Around the world and across the UK, this is BBC News.

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