In duplex on ABC News on the night of Tuesday January 7 to Wednesday January 8, Matt Gutman went on air wearing a fireproof suit flocked with his channel’s logo. Behind him, a “apocalyptic scene” : “the largest supermarket in Pacific Palisades” on fire. Since late Tuesday morning, this upscale neighborhood located in the mountains northwest of Los Angeles has been engulfed in the flames of a fire “out of control”. Rapidly spread by “extremely violent winds”, the fire has already ravaged almost 1,200 hectares, reports in the United Kingdom The Sunday Times in another video illustrating the scale of the disaster.
We identify “many structures already destroyed”, California Governor Gavin Newsom explained during a press briefing in the evening. “The worst is yet to come: the winds are increasing in intensity and preventing planes from taking off,” titled the Los Angeles Times in the night. “At 11 p.m. [8 heures à Paris]the fire was still not contained” et “Wind gusts of up to 97 km/h are expected until Thursday,” reports the Californian daily.
Winds could even reach up to 160 km/h “on certain mountains and hills”, add the American weather services (NWS). The warm Santa Ana winds, typical of the Californian winter and particularly powerful, constitute a “mortal danger”, warn the authorities. As a result, they ordered the evacuation of around 30,000 people. No injuries have been reported so far.
-“Global warming, mainly caused by the use of fossil fuels, is increasing the frequency and intensity of wildfires, not only in California, but also around the world,” recalls the Air Quality Agency of the State of California (Carb).
Canada
