(8 Jan 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Los Angeles – 8 January 2025
1. Various of homes burning and firefighters on the scene fighting fire
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Washington D.C. – 8 January 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"Normally this is not the time of year you see California burning. It’s the wet season. This is not fire season, although fire season is becoming most year round. And that’s something you’ll hear, that’s becoming a cliche in California. But more than anything, what’s happening is this just perfect combination of extremes in California that is changing the calendar for fires."
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Los Angeles – 8 January 2025
3. Various more of homes burning and firefighters on the scene fighting fire
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Washington D.C. – 8 January 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"The biggest factor right now are the extreme winds, the Santa Ana winds. They’re gusting to 100 miles an hour. And this is just making the fire spread too quickly to fight in most cases. Then you toss that on… If you had just those winds and a normal wet season in the winter in California, you wouldn’t have anything like this. But right now, California is seeing one of its driest winters. And it’s not just a dry winter. It’s a dry, hot winter."
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Los Angeles – 8 January 2025
5. Various more of homes burning and firefighters on the scene fighting fire
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Washington D.C. – 8 January 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"After two straight wet years, when the plants grew like crazy because there was a lot of rain and then suddenly there wasn’t. And what that means is when you have a lot of rain to grow plants and then a lot of heat and not much else rain, you have a lot of fuel, a lot of dry plants. And that’s not the only thing dry here we’re talking about. We’re talking about houses. Houses are dry. They don’t suck up moisture like plants to. So they’re dry, too. So you have dry plants, dry houses, super fast winds combining. This is just a recipe for horrible flames."
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++NIGHT SHOTS++
Los Angeles – 8 January 2025
7. Various more of homes burning and firefighters on the scene fighting fire
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Washington D.C. – 8 January 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press: ++COVERED++
"A new study just a few months ago found these small but mighty fires just like what we’re seeing right now are increasing. They’re more than double the amount that they were just 20 some years ago. And scientists think that that might be due to climate change."
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ARCHIVE: Altadena, California – 7 January 2025
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9. Emergency workers and senior center evacuees gathered near ambulances
10. People near ambulances, including elderly woman in wheelchair, waiting to be lifted into ambulance
11. Structure on fire
STORYLINE:
Southern California is experiencing it’s most devastating winter fires in more than four decades. Fires don’t usually blaze at this time of year, but specific ingredients have come together to defy the calendar in a fast and deadly manner.
Start with supersized Santa Ana winds whipping flames and embers at 100 mph — much faster than normal — and cross that with the return of extreme drought.
Add on weather whiplash that grew tons of plants in downpours then record high temperatures that dried them out to make easy-to-burn fuel.
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