2025 Los Angeles Wildfires

[luckypartyoftwo 56]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/la-fires-live-updates-2nd-fire-escalates-quickly/?id=117448186
 

praying for anyone who has connections here 🙏🏼 couldn’t find a thread yet, so sorry if this is redundant or inappropriate just up late watching it

 

know it’s sadly more & more common but this feels different 

[Sunbather Moonchaser 2,637]

Praying for the people there

[Slutto 75]

i really hope i'm wrong about this but with the strong winds there right now, it looks like things are going to get even worse in the hours to come. it's really bad.

[Demonmic03 11,580]

Praying for it to stop

[blackenedrussianpoetry 2,582]

Genuinely asking, why are wildfires specifically, common, in California or LA?

[bluechemtrails 27,591]

4 minutes ago, blackenedrussianpoetry said:

Genuinely asking, why are wildfires specifically, common, in California or LA?

it's hot and dry and strong winds help to spread the fire

[luckypartyoftwo 56]

34 minutes ago, Slutto said:

i really hope i'm wrong about this but with the strong winds there right now, it looks like things are going to get even worse in the hours to come. it's really bad.

Yes especially with people going to sleep too. They are saying certain areas are already out of water 

 

apparently certain areas were also evacuated way too late by police so there is also soo much traffic

 

I have had to evacuate for a storm & it’s so harrowing trying to find a way out. Cannot even imagine having to do it with flames on all sides :/ 

 

[fishtails 13,856]

I'm hoping everyone there can evacuate safely and the fires stop soon

[EstelsDream 814]

Do we know the cause of the fire?

[shadesofblue 17,771]

1 hour ago, EstelsDream said:

Do we know the cause of the fire?

Not an actual cause yet. there's been life threatening level wind warnings for a few days and pretty much no rain in LA in the past year so it might not have taken much. Embers can travel up to 5 miles away with high winds

 

stay safe everyone <3 

[Genesee 6,599]

california seems like it's such a scary place to live. hoping everyone makes it out safe 

[ultrabanisters 46,999]

i remember visiting yosemite/wider cali in early 2019 and seeing how lush it was then revisiting in 2023 and seeing how bad the 2019-22 fires devastated the area.. really sending love to everyone affected and hoping they listen to the fire experts advice and the injury toll is as minimal as possible

[laurita 3,934]

This is breaking my heart 💔 I hope that everyone is ok and that they can stop this fire soon

[Divisive Princess 3,756]

This is so hard to watch. At this point how does it even stop? It looks so bad from what I can understand

[Quincy 4,543]

6 hours ago, blackenedrussianpoetry said:

Genuinely asking, why are wildfires specifically, common, in California or LA?

Recent decades have been very dry and the dying vegetation, trees, etc. become susceptible to ignition*. Geographically, when winds flow out of the northeast in this area, there’s a downslope effect off of the mountains. This brings dry air down toward the coast and downsloping also works to heat the surface, which acts to make the humidity drop even more (drying the air).
 

5 hours ago, EstelsDream said:

Do we know the cause of the fire?

I can’t speak to this specific fire. All it takes is one spark when conditions are ripe. *It could be a cigarette, a truck sparking a flame on a gravel road, a campfire that wasn’t fully put out, an errant lightning strike, or more nefarious reasons. When the wind is strong and the earth is dry, these fires can spread and get out of control very quickly. 
 

1 hour ago, Divisive Princess said:

This is so hard to watch. At this point how does it even stop? It looks so bad from what I can understand

Large fires can’t easily be contained, so it usually comes down to atmospheric conditions easing, so the spread slows down and it can hopefully be put out. 
 

It looks like the dry conditions and downslope winds will continue through at least Thursday, but gradually fading into the weekend. 
 

Hoping that those in the area can stay safe and that destruction is limited 😞🙏

[ultrabanisters 46,999]

why twitter saying the high by the beach house burned down

[Quincy 4,543]

16 minutes ago, ultrabanisters said:

why twitter saying the high by the beach house burned down

Yet another sad element to the already depressing story 

[Rorman Nockwell 57,051]

I’ve experienced smthn like this in my city (although not my suburb) and it’s fucking terrifying

the smell of the smoke and the cinders are so unsettling

the sky was fkn orange and every time the wind blew I felt anxious af

I just hope that everyone who is told to evacuate, evacuates 

I already saw one idiot on the news who said he was staying and that Jesus would protect him 

you can replace things, but you can’t replace people so gtfo

Thinking of any members we have who are in that area 

[dexter 2,389]

23 minutes ago, ultrabanisters said:

why twitter saying the high by the beach house burned down

it’s in the mandatory evacuation zone it might be gone 😭

[ultrabanisters 46,999]

9 minutes ago, Quincy said:

Yet another sad element to the already depressing story 

ducki being a troll acct so i’m in denial for now  i drove past the house on the PCH last year so i’m glad i saw it. shocking how much is gone honestly scared for my californian boardians stay safe yall