Palisades Fire Expands, 2024 Hottest On Record, TikTok Arguments Pro And Con
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Deadly wildfires usher in 2025 in and around Los Angeles, while 2024 takes its official place as the hottest year on record.
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The Palisades fire expanded significantly overnight, bringing new evacuation orders. There are also now dusk-to-dawn curfews in areas around the two biggest fires in Southern California.
And yesterday, the state's governor called for an independent investigation into why some fire hydrants have gone dry. NPR's Liz Baker has been covering the fires. Liz, thanks very much for being with us.
You're welcome, Scott.
How do things look right now?
Well, we're still in heightened fire weather again today, according to the National Weather Service. They're warning that the risk is a little south of L.A., especially today. Parts of Orange and Riverside counties, they're under red flag warnings. For a while here, yesterday and Thursday, the winds calmed down a little bit, where the worst fires have been raging here in L.A., especially at lower elevations. That windbreak has been welcome news. Some evacuation zones were able to be lifted or downgraded. Some people were able to return to their homes and firefighters did start to make some slight progress for the first time towards containment on the big fires and even more progress on some of the smaller ones. But Scott, still over 150,000 people are under evacuation orders.
And overnight there was a flare up of the Palisades fire that led to even more evacuations, this time in the Brentwood area. That fire over there, that's already the worst in Los Angeles history. Overall, these past few days have just been astonishing. Astonishingly destructive. Officials estimate over 10,000 structures destroyed. Here's a clip from Rich Snyder.
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