The iconic landscape of Los Angeles County and its surrounding region have been forever transformed by a massive, multi-front firestorm that has leveled an area more than twice the size of Manhattan.
The Palisades Fire, the largest and the first to spark, has grown quickly because of the dry and vicious Santa Ana winds after ... about 900 acres smaller than Manhattan. The third largest ...
The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region ...
Firefighters have struggled to contain the blaze because of Santa Ana winds, exceptionally strong, dry gusts named after Southern California’s Santa Ana Canyon and blowing in from the desert.