A lull in winds in Los Angeles this weekend brings some respite to firefighters who continue to battle the flames, but meteorologists expect the return of more powerful squalls starting Monday, January 20.
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| Wildfire damage in Altadena, California, United States on January 15. |
| Photo : Xinhua/VNA/CVN |
The winds are expected to strengthen from Monday 20 to Wednesday 22 January opening “a new period of critical risk” for the fires, meteorologist Daniel Swain warned on Saturday, January 18, adding that it might not rain at all in the next six or seven days.
-As thousands of firefighters continue to work day and night to control the devastating fires, President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he hopes to visit the scene after his inauguration Monday, January 20. “probably at the end of the week”.
California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, invited the Republican, who attacked him for his handling of the fires, to visit Los Angeles and see the damage.
Dozens of people are still missing and at least 27 have died from the fires in Altadena, north of Los Angeles, and in the upscale Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the city’s west. They destroyed more than 16,000 ha, an area almost as large as the capital Washington, and led to the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.
Mounted police officers and dog squads inspected the disaster areas on Friday in search of victims, in charred buildings and even in certain steep areas.
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