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How the LA wildfires unfolded and what’s needed for recovery _ BBC News
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00:00اشتركوا في القليل
00:30كل شيء مستخدمي، الناس لا يستطيع الاجتماعي
00:33لذلك، الاجتماعي هو الأهم الأهمية
00:40المنزلون على مدرسة عبرية
00:44الناس يدرون على ذلك الأسفل
00:45يجب أن يذهبون عن طريق السرطة
00:48على خطواتهم بخطواتهم
00:50وستطيع أن ينظروا بيشعر في المنزل
00:51ولكن الآن، يبدو أنه يبدو موجودة
00:58أشتركوا في القناة
01:00وفقنا.
01:02كل 29 أشتركوا في القناة
01:04لا يستطيع في هذا الشكل
01:07كبير مرحبايا
01:09لكن كيف كان هذا تحرك
01:12و لماذا يتفهن
01:14لذلك أراد الجبل
01:25Los Angeles is America's biggest city on the west coast and people here are used to wildfires.
01:33They've destroyed homes and businesses time and time again.
01:37But no one could have predicted the scale of the tragedy about to unfold
01:41when news first broke of one fire in one community.
01:55You can see they are dropping water. There you go. You can see it happened right there.
02:02And there are some hand crews on the ground.
02:05Would you mind talking to us for a second?
02:07OK, what's your name?
02:08Charles.
02:09Charles, have you been evacuated from the area or not yet?
02:12Not yet. And we have seen that before.
02:14So nothing new to us for the last 32 years that I've been here.
02:19Within hours, things are getting serious.
02:23Residents can scarcely believe their eyes.
02:27Fires were this close to the cars.
02:29People left their cars on Palisades Drive.
02:32Yeah.
02:33Burning up the hillside, palm trees, everything's going.
02:38What happened?
02:39There's a lot of fire right there.
02:41That's why the people coming. We leave the car.
02:44They said to get out of your car? OK.
02:49It's just so sad.
02:50And I feel for everyone that's lost property and fires, I've never been this close to it.
02:56Driving down the canyon was really very shattering.
03:04Huge smoke plumes can be seen rising above the Pacific Palisades area of the city,
03:09and residents have been issued with an evacuation order.
03:12Please take this wind emergency very seriously.
03:15As you heard from the speakers before me, this is something that is going to get worse throughout the night.
03:20So we all have to look out for each other.
03:22The fire broke out around 10.30 in the morning in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
03:30It's an upscale area between Santa Monica and Malibu, home to many famous residents.
03:36Sitting here and waiting to find out whether we're going to be evacuated or not is...
03:42It's like the time can't go by any slower.
03:47Yes, baby. Come here, bubba.
03:49So instead, we decided to pass the time by putting together bags of clothes for our friends who have lost everything.
03:59I have never seen flames from my house like this, ever.
04:09This is insanity.
04:14I hope everyone is staying safe tonight.
04:19Lots of love, lots of prayers.
04:24Okay, we found everyone.
04:26Our car is packing up the car.
04:29Getting ready to go to the hotel.
04:32It's so big, it's so red.
04:37My thoughts and prayers are with everyone tonight.
04:43I'm really pleased to stop soon.
04:47Our community is beyond devastated.
04:54We are all pulling together.
04:56A lot of my friends and boss are home.
04:58I'm waiting to see if our home will be there.
05:05Right now, it's just a waiting game.
05:13Among the buildings threatened, the world-famous Getty Museum with 44,000 artifacts.
05:19I have the waves crashing in front of me here on PCH, and I have the flames behind me here on the hill after coming off the Temescal Canyon, where embers were being blown around as you saw.
05:37The high school caught fire.
05:40Hall is burning on either side.
05:42And that fire over the last few hours just, I mean, look at the gusts.
05:47It's not straight down.
05:49It's literally pushing.
05:50It's blowing south.
05:52So it is just throwing these flames over these hills and through these canyons.
05:58The headlines.
06:1030,000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes because of a wildfire which is tearing through wealthy suburbs of Los Angeles.
06:18It's like a ghost town. Everybody's abandoned this place, as you can imagine.
06:23And the fires are still smoldering.
06:25People would normally be driving up and down here with surfboards on top of their cars, ready to enjoy a day at the beach.
06:32But right now, it just looks like some sort of apocalypse.
06:36There's not enough structure protection in here to really try and save all of these homes.
06:42It's really going to be a struggle.
06:44This is heartbreaking.
06:45I feel for these people.
06:47And it's just sad to watch all these homes go up.
06:50This was just a little antique shop, pizza place.
06:55These places have been here forever, ever since I've been alive.
06:58I really thought my shop was gone.
07:00It's still here right now.
07:01I don't know if it'll make it or not.
07:04There's a lot of people who don't have insurance or fire insurance.
07:08I know that's difficult in this area, especially if you're in the fire zone.
07:11And I feel horrible for them.
07:12Tell you, I've been here 47 years.
07:14I grew up on this block.
07:15I saw the other algae in the fires and it was nothing like this.
07:18Nothing like this.
07:20My son left the house before us on foot.
07:22He doesn't have a cell phone or anything like that.
07:25So I'm searching for him now.
07:26I'm looking for him.
07:27We got a phone call from a neighbor saying that our house was on fire.
07:31and we knew that there were no fire trucks in the area.
07:36So we thought we would come up and see if we could get in the area.
07:39Well, I keep going from not crying to now starting to cry again,
07:43because I know a lot of these people and they've lost everything.
07:46So it's, it's pretty surreal to see all this.
07:51Five minutes ago, I was sitting in the car by myself and I just, the tears just came over my face.
07:58So entire history is, is, is in the house.
08:04We did take all of our family pictures and a few valuable paintings out last night.
08:08So, you know, uh, all the stuff that's here is replaceable people or not.
08:12So very lucky.
08:17So happy.
08:18The family is the most important thing.
08:21I, I, I, I, I'm going to break down again.
08:28That's what I, that's what I feel.
08:30It's, it's my whole life.
08:34Everything was in there.
08:36So lost everything.
08:38You shape up.
08:39You're supposed to be a support.
08:41Anyway, I'm okay.
08:46I'm okay.
08:47I'll be okay.
08:48I'm tough.
08:49And we'll start.
08:50We are tough.
08:51Even though I'm 91 years old, I'll start over again.
08:55The difference with this is that we've had these huge 50 to 80 mile an hour winds and it's still windy.
09:02And so didn't matter where the fire started yesterday, but the embers flew everywhere.
09:09Let's go back to Emma Vardy now.
09:12And Emma, this area is no stranger to wildfires, but nothing could have prepared them for this.
09:17What makes this so different is that there are so many fires burning at once and they're burning so close to residential areas.
09:25Now, emergency crews on the ground have admitted they just don't have enough people to deal with this developing situation.
09:32And some of those fires are still growing in size.
09:37The hillsides are still burning behind us.
09:40And every time the winds blow, there's a gust of wind.
09:43We're just seeing flames up on the hillside there burst back into life.
09:46A reminder of how unpredictable this fire is and how much the winds have been driving it and making life so difficult.
09:54We have also been hearing about some serious injuries to residents who did not evacuate their homes,
10:00choosing to stay behind for various reasons to try and protect their homes or simply leaving it too late.
10:07So emergency services are continuing to warn people to take evacuation orders very seriously,
10:13because this is a day like Los Angeles has not seen before and it's not even close to being over yet.
10:20This is CBS News on the hour.
10:31The Southern California wildfires are not only some of the most destructive in state history, they've turned deadly.
10:37At least five lives now reported lost.
10:40Overnight, destruction continued.
10:4615,000 buildings had been burned.
10:49And 100,000 people had been forced from their homes.
10:53Firefighters were overwhelmed.
10:56And there were increasing reports of looting.
10:59So if I very quickly take my mask off, the air is absolutely thick with smoke.
11:07The fire crews here tell us they have a shortage of water.
11:11And in many instances they're having to stand and watch these properties burn.
11:15It is a losing battle.
11:17I never thought it would come through yet.
11:19David was hoping his home might have survived.
11:23But the whole neighbourhood has gone.
11:26and with it his house too.
11:35I would have thought I'd be seeing more planes flying over with water.
11:39I mean there appears to be just two.
11:42I mean in California are there not like 20 or 30 of them that they could have got you already?
11:47I would have thought the firemen would like take a stand on a certain area.
11:54Maybe they did and I'm just not seeing it.
12:02From Pacific Palisades the fire spread across more than 17,000 acres.
12:07Making it one of the biggest natural disasters in the history of Los Angeles.
12:13Five separate fires were now burning.
12:16The Palisades and Hurst fires were almost completely uncontained.
12:22We've just been evacuated.
12:24We've just been evacuated from this good Samaritan's car.
12:27You got it dad.
12:29Moving out vulnerable residents was proving far from easy.
12:32There's a fire right outside our car.
12:35We got it. No, not that way dad, dad.
12:37My father-in-law has Parkinson's. He can barely move.
12:40This was a heroic effort on his part.
12:42It's very wobbly. Here, let me try to get it.
12:44Which way do I go at?
12:45This way dad, to the sidewalk.
12:46I went outside. I saw smoke and fire near my father-in-law's house and realized we need to go.
12:53The problem is we didn't have a car.
12:55I ran up and down the street where he was, Glenhaven.
12:59Finally found a neighbor who was willing to swing by and pick us up.
13:02Most people had already gone at that point.
13:05And at that point, I grabbed his medicine.
13:08That's the only thing I could think to grab.
13:10Turn around dad, we got this.
13:11And at that point, we jumped in his car.
13:13This guy, Jeff, a neighbor we'd never met before.
13:16But, you know, salt of the earth, saved our lives.
13:19As we're driving down, there's fires on both sides of the car.
13:23We're driving, we're suddenly seeing fires.
13:25You could feel the heat.
13:26And then the fires were getting closer and closer.
13:28And at that point, just being stuck there, surrounded by fire,
13:32the policemen started running up the street,
13:34get out of the car, get out of the car.
13:44The authorities in Los Angeles have issued a powerful warning
13:47against looting and other criminal activity in areas abandoned by people fleeing wildfires.
13:5210 people are known to have died, but officials expect this number to rise.
13:59On day four of the disaster, tens of thousands of acres have been destroyed.
14:05Residents are asking why help wasn't coming more quickly.
14:09It's just not on a cruise. You don't know people.
14:11I think, what I think, I think they're underbanned.
14:13budgets have been cut.
14:15We actually came to say thank you to our house for being good to us.
14:24Well, as thousands of firefighters continue that battle to get this crisis under control,
14:43this is what it leaves in its wake.
14:45The suburb of Altadena sits at the foot of a mountain range,
14:49over which the unusually strong winds for this time of year,
14:53the Santa Ana winds, they call them, poured in on Tuesday night.
14:57and it's that that really lies at the heart of this disaster.
15:02The Santa Ana winds have had two effects.
15:04Once you get the fire going, well, it's already started.
15:07But the Santa Ana winds add in extra dry air.
15:10That sucks out all the moisture that's already there in the plants.
15:13So it dries them out quicker.
15:15So it's actually adding more fuel.
15:17and then the speed helps the spread.
15:21If you think you can have wind speeds,
15:23basically hurricane force wind speeds blowing,
15:26with a fire in place,
15:28it will push that flame, that boundary of the fire,
15:31over huge areas in such a short space of time.
15:35And that is what we've seen in LA over the last few days.
15:39There's much debate about the emergency response.
15:42Were the authorities prepared for such a calamity?
15:46But there's also another question people are asking.
15:49Is the changing climate partly to blame for all the devastation?
15:55So what the climate scientists say is that the temperature is getting hotter.
16:01That's making things drier.
16:03You've got extended heat waves,
16:05which draw moisture out of the soil and out of the vegetation.
16:08So you've got more dry vegetation.
16:10So when a fire starts,
16:12there's more fuel to keep that fire going
16:14and it's likely to burn longer and burn a larger area.
16:19The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
16:23did a paper looking at the relationship between temperature increase and wildfires.
16:28They found that climate change had caused an almost 200% increase,
16:33almost doubled the area burnt by wildfires since the 1970s.
16:37People are saying now $150 billion, the most expensive fire in US history,
16:44and presumably in world history.
16:46So as a climate journalist, you look at this and you say,
16:49this is one of those kind of key events in the history of the whole planet's understanding
16:55of the potential impacts of climate change.
17:05We're just letting everybody know where we're at.
17:07We're taking donations, any types.
17:09There's anything from kids' supplies, pet supplies, food,
17:14anything you could think of that we could help you with.
17:16There was a lady here offering housing for people that have lost homes.
17:20We're just trying to help in any way possible in a hard time like this.
17:27I came here because I'm in need.
17:29I lost my house, my childhood home.
17:32It's just devastating.
17:34This is crazy.
17:36The city I grew up in is gone.
17:38We wanted to see if we could get water because that's the mostly thing that we're worried about.
17:45The water, you know, we need water.
17:50Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have been meeting some of the first responders
17:55and victims of the fires at a World Central Kitchen site where food is being distributed.
18:01The couple spoke and, as you see, hugged some of the people who'd been affected by the Eton fire.
18:07It's believed that they had already contributed clothing, children's items and other essential supplies.
18:22The governor of California has called for an independent investigation
18:26into whether water shortages hindered efforts to control the wildfires
18:30that have devastated parts of Los Angeles.
18:33Firefighters are still trying to contain the blazes.
18:36Beautiful drop.
18:40By Saturday, six fires were burning.
18:43Poor air quality caused by billowing ash and smoke prompted the authorities to declare a local health emergency.
18:51The number of dead climbed to 11.
18:54Determining the cause of these fires is critical.
18:57And to that end, Mayor Bass, Chief Crowley and I are announcing, in conjunction with our partner agencies,
19:02the creation of the Los Angeles Regional Wildfire Investigative Task Force.
19:07This task force is made up of local, state and federal partners designed to investigate the cause of these fires
19:12and to see if there's any connection between them.
19:15At least 16 people have died since Tuesday and about a dozen others are missing.
19:20Four large fires are still burning and officials say that the threat will remain high until Wednesday because of strong winds.
19:27To all L.A. County residents, please be assured that we will continue to battle these wildfires from the air and on the ground until they are fully contained.
19:39We stand alongside all of you as we begin repopulation of evacuated areas, establishment of disaster recovery centers and the rebuilding of your homes, your communities and your lives.
19:54Watching the fires develop, sitting kind of awestruck, seeing this kind of vision of apocalypse in one of the greatest cities on earth burning.
20:07It was a cataclysmic fire.
20:12California will be probably asking itself big questions.
20:15You can't stop or prevent wildfires as such, especially in the climate that California has.
20:21It will have to look into various ways to manage the potential and the ways they tackle the fires in the future,
20:28especially as it's becoming a growing threat on every month of the year and over wider areas.
20:37The imagery of L.A. has become black and white.
20:40You know, it's ash and charred, burnt material.
20:43This sort of ghostly landscape that's emerged from a place we're all familiar with because we've all seen the movies.
20:49We know what L.A. looks like. We know the palm trees and the green grass.
20:54And now you see this sort of really degraded, frankly terrifying kind of shattered landscape.
21:02The people here will never forget these fires that ushered in the new year.
21:08And the scale of the tragedy is really difficult to overstate.
21:12Yes, much of the physical damage to homes and businesses, that could be put right.
21:16But the lives of some have been changed forever.
21:19With many people wandering, because the fire season is getting longer and longer.
21:24How are they going to cope next time?
21:26How are they going to cope next time?
21:27How are they going to cope next time?
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21:30And now they're going to get into trouble.
21:31Who are they going to cope next time?
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