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10 Dead, 10,000 Buildings Destroyed: Los Angeles Wildfires In Numbers

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:38:00  S O Staff   AFP

Paris: Ten people dead, 10,000 buildings destroyed, 180,000 people evacuated, $150 billion in damage.

Here are the main figures showing the scale of the massive wildfires that have engulfed Los Angeles County since Tuesday.

Five blazes ongoing

Los Angeles is being ravaged by five different big blazes.

The largest, the Palisades Fire northwest of the nation's second most populous city, has consumed 81 square kilometers (31 square miles).

It has ravaged the upscale Pacific Palisades neighborhood, home to multimillionaires and celebrities.

The second, at 55 square kilometers, is the Eaton Fire in Altadena, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles. The two fires are still out of control, according to state agency Cal Fire.

Three much smaller blazes, the Kenneth Fire (four sq km), the Hurst Fire (three sq km) and the Lidia Fire (1.6 sq km), have been partly contained -- by 35 percent, 37 percent and 75 percent respectively.

145 square kilometers

The fires have ripped through nearly 36,000 acres (14,500 hectares or 145 square kilometers.)

Compared to other fires which have hit California in recent years and spread sometimes over several thousand square kilometers, the current blazes are smaller in size.


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