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LA wildfires: evacuees warned against returning to homes due to toxic waste

Toxis iwaste at fire sitesAs the battle against the deadly fires in Los Angeles county enters its 10th day, officials are warning evacuees against returning to their homes due to the presence of toxic, hazardous waste and exposed power and gas lines.

During a Thursday press conference, Yonah Halpern, principal engineer with LA county public works said that toxins such as asbestos, and mercury can be found in fire debris and that the US Environmental Protection Agency and county fire department will be going house-to-house to assess and remove hazardous materials at no cost to the property’s owner.

The extreme winds behind the disastrous fires in Los Angeles are forecast to calm the rest of the week into the weekend, making it easier for firefighters to further efforts to put out the massive Palisades and Eaton fires that have been ablaze for over a week.

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Trump energy chief pick says linking wildfires to climate crisis is ‘hype’

Chris Wright

Donald Trump’s nominee for energy secretary, Chris Wright, is facing criticism for disputing the ties between climate change and more frequent or severe wildfires, the Washington Post reports, a stance that is contrary to scientific consensus.

During Wright’s US Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democrats, including the California senator Alex Padilla, challenged Wright over past comments, pointing to a LinkedIn post calling wildfire concerns “hype” and dismissing their connection to climate policies.

Padilla accused Wright of downplaying the real and deadly effects of wildfires. When the senator asked whether Wright stood by those comments in light of the catastrophic blazes in his home state, Wright responded that he believes that climate change is a global phenomenon and that he stands by his past comments.

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Death toll rises to 25 amid new Los Angeles warnings and thousands still under evacuation orders

CA death toll reaches 25

At 4pm the Los Angeles county medical examiner’s office confirmed the death toll from the wildfires ravaging the area has risen to 25.

Meanwhile, Brice Bennet, deputy state fire marshal, shared an update via X on Tuesday afternoon saying that the mountains of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties will be under a red flag warning from 10pm Tuesday to 12pm on Wednesday. Bennet said:

The National Weather Service has issued their highest level of warning, called a particularly dangerous situation. Damaging winds with gusts between 55 and 70 miles per hour are expected across the affected areas through Wednesday morning. The winds have already begun to increase in Southern California and are expected to peak early this afternoon. These conditions create a high risk for large, rapidly spreading fires, extreme fire behavior and long range spotting.

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LA winds to intensify; officials 'grid searching' for fire victims: Live updates

LA wildfires Ominous winds were expected to regain strength Monday, howling through fire-blackened trees, picking up plumes of ash and smoke and further tangling efforts to tamp down the explosion of fires across Los Angeles County that have killed at least 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses.

The winds could threaten the incremental progress firefighters made over the weekend with multiple fires. The winds that had eased somewhat Sunday, allowing firefighters and rescue crews to begin gaining some control, were forecast to return later Monday, with coastal winds reaching 40-50 mph.

The National Weather Service's Los Angeles office highlighted Red Flag Warning areas in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties that received the rare "particularly dangerous situation'' designation, saying those are for "the extreme of the extreme fire weather scenarios.'' The Red Flag Warnings for a larger stretch of Southern California are in place from Monday through Wednesday morning.

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LA wildfires: death toll rises to 24 as winds threaten further destruction

LA fires death toll at 24

The death toll from the Eaton and Palisades fires that have consumed large swathes of Los Angeles county – and are still less than 30% contained – has risen to 24, according to medical examiners.

The county of Los Angeles medical examiner published a list of fatalities without giving details of any identities. Eight of the dead were found in the Palisades fire zone, and 16 in the Eaton fire zone, the document said.

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At least 13 dead in LA fires as authorities continue to probe cause

Fire retardent used in OA

The largest of four active wildfires in Los Angeles County was encroaching on a major Southern California artery on Saturday as the flames expanded to the northeast and officials warned of more extreme fire weather conditions this weekend.

The Palisades Fire grew another roughly 1,000 acres on Saturday, and had burned 23,654 acres by afternoon with 11% containment. An expansion of the flames to the north and east prompted officials to issue more mandatory evacuation areas to the west of the 405 freeway as it threatened parts of Encino and Brentwood.

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2024 was the hottest year on record. The reason remains a science mystery

2024 is hottest year in history

2024 is officially the hottest year ever recorded on Planet Earth, at least while humans have been around, according to the official tallies from meteorological organizations around the world.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), NASA and Copernicus—the EU's meteorological association—released their annual global temperature analyses [Friday]. They all found that Earth has warmed roughly 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above temperatures in the 1800s, before people began burning vast reserves of fossil fuels.

The numbers vary slightly. NOAA reports 1.46 degrees C of warming, NASA, 1.47; and the EU's Copernicus, 1.6.

"The real punchline is, it was another really warm year," says Russell Vose, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information, the group that produces the temperature estimates.

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