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The Los Angeles Wildfires Are Just More Signs of What’s to Come.
Climate change is here, and it’s only going to continue to get worse.
It’s tough to even know where to begin when it’s comes to talking about the wildfires ravaging communities around Los Angeles. Entire communities have been reduced to nothing but ash, and things are only continue to get worse. Thousands upon thousands of people have been told to be ready to flee at a moment’s notice, and some have not made it out alive.
Faris Tanyos, Jordan Freiman, Brian Dakss, Kerry Breen with CBS News write:
“At least five fires across the Los Angeles area, including one in Hollywood Hills, have scorched more than 45 square miles and put roughly 179,000 people under evacuation orders, according to officials.
Five people are dead. More than 1,300 structures have already burned and over 60,000 structures are threatened as strong winds fan blazes in densely populated parts of Southern California, officials said.
Three of the five blazes burning Thursday morning weren’t contained at all, including the Palisades and Eaton fires — the two largest. The Hurst, Lidia and Sunset blazes were also active fires.”
