The county authorities Los Angeles announced a dusk-to-dawn curfew for the Eaton and Palisades fire zones. It went into effect on Thursday and will resume this Friday night.
The local sheriff, Robert Luna, assured that the measure was established to improve public safety, protect property and prevent theft and looting in the mandatory evacuated areas: “We’re not playing around with this, we don’t want anyone to take advantage of our residents who have already been victimized.”
“You cannot be in the affected areas. If you are, you can be arrested. That’s important. We are not doing this to bother anyone, we are doing it to protect the structures, the houses that people have abandoned because we have ordered them to leave“he added.
Police reported Thursday that 20 people were arrested during the night of Wednesday in relation to robberies and looting in the areas devastated by the fire.
Under that framework, the National Guard responded with 400 troops to help with the closure of roads and the “protection of critical infrastructure” in the evacuation zones. More National Guard troops are expected to arrive Friday night or Saturday and deploy strategically, Luna said.
Luna emphasized that the only people allowed to enter mandatory evacuation zones are disaster workers. Misdemeanor arrests will be made under Los Angeles County Code Section 2.68320, with possible fines of up to $1,000 or jail time: “I have given instructions that if anyone is caught doing this, they will not be cited or released, they will be signed,” Luna said.
Fires in Los Angeles: there are already ten dead and there are new problematic sources to contain the fire
After the advance of the fires in the state of California, United States, the death toll increased to ten. The information comes from the latest balance sheet of the county’s medical examiner’s department. The fires do not stop and new problematic sources appear to encompass the catastrophe. In addition, experts point out that it is the “costliest fire in the history of the United States.”
One last sector in view is the focus Kennethwhich began burning on Thursday in the hills near the city of Calabasas. The latter is investigated as a arson and a suspect is arrested. Another 20 people were arrested for possible robberies at the affected homes. This last fire grew rapidly and It precipitated mandatory evacuation orders in the area, although it was contained.
The Kenneth joined the fire in Pacific Palisadesin the west of the city. This front has been burning since Tuesday afternoon and became “one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history of Los Angeles,” according to authorities.
On Thursday afternoon, the first progress was made with control of 6% of that focus. President Joe Biden announced that, for 180 days, The federal government will fully cover the cost of recovery. The fires burned more than 14,400 hectares, destroyed thousands of buildings and forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people.
Fire in Los Angeles: experts anticipated that it is the “costliest in the history of the United States”
Los Angeles is affected by one of the worst natural incidents in its history. What is happening in California is not just another catastrophe and, according to UCLA researcher Daniel Swain, “Has the potential to be the costliest wildfire in American history”.
The researcher stated that the entire situation “taken together” has the potential to be the largest and “costliest” in the history of the United States. In detailWhat puzzles experts is that the incident impacts the country in the middle of winter and after the fire season that runs from May/June to October.
Regarding the scenario that Los Angeles is experiencing, the Californian governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, stated “there is no longer a fire season, there is a fire year.” The droughts that the American State is experiencing also explain a large part of the catastrophe. The last few weeks have been unusually dry (and very warm) and Southern California is full of grasses and shrubs ready to be fed to the flames.
“The south of California has not received more than 0.25 cm of rain since Maywhich translates into a high risk of fires,” reported the UCLA researcher.
Source: Ambito
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