California has seen deadly blazes over the years \u2013 Camp fire decimated Paradise town in 2018 and Tubbs fire burned 36,810 acres in 2017<\/p>\n
The destruction caused by the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles is the worst the city has seen in recent history.<\/p>\n
The wildfires, which began on 7 January, have torched the US\u2019s second largest city, leaving at least 11 dead <\/a>and over 10,000 structures destroyed. Roughly 150,000 Los Angeles county residents remain under evacuation orders.<\/p>\n Palisades, the first and largest fire, is spreading west of Los Angeles. Burning across 21,317 acres, the fire had only been 8% contained<\/a> as of Friday afternoon, meaning firefighters have created control lines<\/a> \u2013 usually wide trenches \u2013 around 8% of it. Officials say initial estimates indicate it has destroyed at least 5,300 structures between the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Firefighters estimate it\u2019s the third-most destructive wildfire in California\u2019s history.<\/p>\n The Eaton fire, burning across Pasadena and Altadena areas in the north-east has blazed nearly 14,000 acres and has only been 3% contained<\/a>. It has so far destroyed 5,000 structures, ranking<\/a> it as the fourth most destructive wildfire in California\u2019s history.<\/p>\n The other fires currently burning<\/a> across Los Angeles include<\/a> Kenneth, Hurst and Lidia. Kenneth, a brush fire which emerged in the Woodlands Hills area on Thursday, has burned across 1,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. As of Friday morning, it has been 35% contained. Meanwhile, the Hurst fire, which is burning across 771 acres across the northernmost suburb of Los Angeles, has been 37% contained as of Friday morning. Over in Antelope Valley, the Lidia fire has burned across 395 acres and is 75% contained as of Friday morning.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" California has seen deadly blazes over the years \u2013 Camp fire decimated Paradise town in 2018 and Tubbs fire burned 36,810 acres in 2017 California wildfires \u2013 live Los Angeles fires: the damage in maps, video and images The destruction caused by the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles is the worst the city has seen in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}