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The first significant storm in the season brought snow and showers to southern California, which raised fires on Monday and caused some ashes and mud flowing through the streets in the Los Angeles area.
More than 2.5 centimeters of rain fell in many areas, releasing Los Angeles Hillsides burned with a recent flame near the Palisades neighborhood, where the crews cleaned overwhelmed roads, including the famous Pacific Coast highway. In neighboring Malibu, four schools were closed on Monday “due to dangerous road conditions,” said Santa Monica-Malib Unified School District.
The clouds were cleaned, but flooded watches of long -term rain pockets were still in effect for the fire areas of Palisade, Altadena and Castaic Lake.
“All these fresh burns are very susceptible to rapid runoff,” said Joe Sirard, a meteorologist of the National Meteorological Office for Los Angeles.
Parts of San Diego District received more than 2.5 centimeters of rain, while other areas became smaller.
Santa Ana’s powerful winds return for the second time – pushing the fire into the extreme.
Returning residents called to carry protective equipment
The rain began on Saturday after a months -long dry and often charged time that created dangerous fire conditions. Los Angeles’ district crews spent most of last week removing the vegetation, biting slopes and amplifying roads in areas ravaged by Palisades and Eaton fires, which reduced the entire district to ruins and ash after they broke out during the powerful winds on January 7th.
The rain ended with an almost record series of dry weather for southern California. Most southern California is currently in “extremely dry drought” or “strong drought”, according to the US drought monitor.
The concern about the flow of debris after fire have been particularly high since 2018, when the city of Montecito, along the coast of Los Angeles, devastated the mudslides after hitting a huge fire in the mountain slope. Hundreds of homes were damaged and 23 people died.
The San Diego District of District helped firefighters to achieve significant progress against less border fire 2, breaking through the remote area of the Wildlife of the Otay Mountain near the US-Mexico border.
Last week, city and county officials of Los Angeles accelerated the efforts of cleaning and other measures aimed at relieving the influence of fire -related pollutants.
Officials have warned that ash in recent burn zones is a toxic mixture of burned cars, electronics, batteries, construction materials, colors, furniture and other household items. Contains pesticides, asbestos, plastic and lead.
Residents are called to wear protective equipment during cleaning.
Pacific Palisades residents, in force on Monday, were allowed to return home from fire for the first time, although they were subject to police hours from 6am to 6pm.
Eaton Fire Video Records Trial
Palisades fire, the largest of flames that destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 12 people, reached 94 percent on Monday.
The Hughes fire, which lit up north of Los Angeles last week and caused orders for evacuation or warnings for more than 50,000 people, is almost contained.
Since January 7th, Eaton fire burned 57 square kilometers east of Los Angeles, destroyed 9,418 buildings, damaged 1,073 buildings and caused 17 deaths. It was 99 percent contained from Monday, according to the California Forest and Fire Protection Department.
Southern California Edison reported on Monday about the fault of the transmission -related miles from those near the origin of the Eaton Fire.
Edison says there is still no evidence that his equipment has caused flames, which has destroyed more than 9,000 buildings around the Altadena Community. An official fire investigation has not been completed.
The new application of a utility company with the California Commission for Municipal Services comes on the same day as a court hearing in a case that attorneys have filed as a house owner whose assets were destroyed in the fire. Lawyers say the utility equipment has been launched by a fire, pointing to videos recorded during the early minutes of fire showing a large flame under electric towers.
The lawyers have now presented a new video that they say shows the secretion and electric distortions on the transfer tower to Eaton Canyon just before the wind put a fire into a fast and destructive flame. The video is said to have come from a gas station safety shot.
In his new submission, Edison reported that the mistake happened at 18:11, 7 January. While those lines that experienced guilt do not cross the Eaton Canyon, they are related to the system that has experienced an increase, she has reported the utility.
“Currently increasing has remained within the restriction of design and work criteria for these circles and, as intended, did not initiate the protection of the system on these lines,” the service program said.
Kathleen Dunleavy, spokeswoman Edison from southern California, said the company received Video Video Spring at the New York Times gas stationwho posted a report on a firefighting fire and contacted the authorities to ensure that they also have a video. She said he commented on the recordings too soon while experts were investigating what caused the flames.
Altadena Evangeline Iglesias lawyers claimed that, together, videos and gas stations provide “proof that Sce’s equipment in Eaton Canyon was a source of initial burning, and there is almost security security that physical evidence of the cause exists somewhere on the portable scene the lines that take place in parallel with a line on the tower that broke out the flames. “
The video and photos taken by the inhabitants also captured the flames under the Edison electric towers in the Eaton Canyon in the early minutes of fire. One resident said that at the beginning of the conflict he heard a loud pop.
