Huge fire destroys South Los Angeles homes 'in the blink of an eye' Los Angeles Times

Table Of Content

• The Escape Plan: Test Your Fire Safety Skills
• Some evacuation orders for Woolsey Fire lifted
• Israeli officials concerned about possible ICC arrest …
• Coastal Fire prompts smoke advisory
• The dangers of smoke inhalation
• people are shot amid fight at a Florida party venue; teen is arrested
• Police officer hiring in U.S. increased in 2023 after years of decline, survey shows

Irfan Khan was a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times from 1996 to 2024. He previously served as a freelance photographer for the publication beginning in 1989. Khan started his career as a commercial photographer in 1973 in Pakistan and moved to Dubai in 1977, where he worked for an advertising agency and at a leading English newspaper. Internationally, he has photographed the Hajj in Saudi Arabia and war zones of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to semi-classical music of the Indian subcontinent and playing cricket on Sundays.

The Escape Plan: Test Your Fire Safety Skills

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He looked out the window and saw an out-of-control fire towering above the utility poles on his street. The Emergency Management Department, which coordinated the response, worked with the L.A. Department of Transportation to take displaced residents to a temporary evacuation center.

Some evacuation orders for Woolsey Fire lifted

According to the National Fire Protection Association, house fires are responsible for more than 2,600 fatalities per year.1 But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are fire protection steps you can take to keep your family safe in the event of a home fire. Fire crews continue to battle what authorities have dubbed the Coastal Fire in Laguna Niguel. More than a dozen homes have burned, including multimillion-dollar mansions and the fire has grown to an estimated 183 acres. SKY9's Desmond Shaw reports that homes, even ones that earlier appeared safe, are catching on fire as high winds pick up burning embers.

Israeli officials concerned about possible ICC arrest …

As a massive heat dome lingered over the Pacific Northwest three years ago, swaths of North America simmered — and then burned. Wildfires charred more than 18.5 million acres across the continent, with the most land burned in Canada and California. There isn’t a full fire report yet, but authorities suspect that “smoking materials,” like a lighter, matches or cigarettes, started the blaze in the attached home. The fire climbed to their roof and then spread to the Pattersons’ home. The Woolsey Fire and smaller Hill blaze have destroyed more than 150 homes and prompted evacuation orders for about 250,000 people from Thousand Oaks northwest of Los Angeles to Malibu. The investigation into what drove 28-year-old Ian David Long to kill was continuing even as the city about 40 miles from Los Angeles was under threat.

But officials stressed that there won't be any access to neighborhoods south of the freeway. County-side of communities located north of the 101 Freeway, the station says. Fire officials in San Bernardino County, northeast of Los Angeles, said a new fire was contained almost as quickly as it broke out Sunday. "Some of my neighbors have lost everything. And I'm not sure if my house is standing," one woman said, pointing at officials.

LAFD assists with Orange County Coastal Fire

To escape a fire and its fumes, crawl to the closest exit, remembering that it may be a window. Staying low to the ground will help protect you from inhaling smoke and toxic gases. October is fire prevention month, which means it's time to review fire safety and prevention.

The dangers of smoke inhalation

Given the high temperatures of large fires, most if not all of the home furnishings may be rendered unusable. Flames pour through the doorway into the neighboring living room, setting the carpet and upholstered furniture on fire. Synthetics like polyurethane and polyester foam in sofas, pillows and carpets release tremendous amounts of heat.

“While the danger of being burned by a fire is evident, many people are unaware of the dangers of smoke inhalation,” says emergency department physician Baruch Fertel, MD. The Electrical Safety Foundation reports that 65% of home fire deaths result from fires in homes with no working smoke detectors. ESFI recommends smoke detectors should be installed on every level of the home, inside every bedroom and outside every sleeping area. Test your smoke detectors (and your carbon monoxide detectors simultaneously) at minimum twice per year, including replacing the batteries at each inspection, and replace any devices that are more than seven years old. The size of the heat dome made it particularly troubling because it resulted in what the study authors called widespread synchronous burning, with many disparate areas igniting at the same time. That posed a challenge to fire agencies because they tend to ask for help from other places when they don’t have enough resources locally.

CNN showed video of flames engulfing the man’s body as bystanders ran from the rising dark smoke. Nonetheless, Cara's parents, Charles and Pandora, had their own theory about the house fire ... Blaming a rogue powerline as the culprit, especially after a very windy night in SoCal. Area house fire last month has left the LAFD scratching their heads ...

Over a five-day period in June, locations in seven U.S. states, including California, surpassed all-time maximum temperature records, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Farther south, the town of Lytton, British Columbia, on June 29 experienced Canada’s hottest recorded temperature, 119 degrees, and was largely destroyed by a wildfire the next day. Video showed huge flames coming out of the two-story building's windows and thick black smoke billowing into the air. The entire city of Malibu was ordered to evacuate Friday morning as the "Woolsey Fire" roared toward the beachside community that is home for many Hollywood celebrities. A city-wide evacuation was ordered early Friday and then was scaled back, only to be reinstated.

LAFD officials tell TMZ the arson squad took on Cara's house fire investigation as standard procedure but couldn't pinpoint the exact origin and cause of the blaze due to the extensive damage. LANSING — Firefighters rescued a dog early Friday from a burning two-story home just north of downtown. The study did not look specifically at how the heat dome, which extended into Northern California, affected the state’s fire season. That summer, the 963,000-acre Dixie fire, which started July 13, became the first to burn from one side of the Sierra Nevada to the other, followed in short order by the 221,000-acre Caldor fire. About 75 firefighters worked to extinguish the flames in roughly 45 minutes.

The newspaper reports it is the only three-span truss bridge of its kind in the United States. It was the backdrop for countless wedding and other celebration photos over the years and in recent years had been used for movie nights. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the 238-foot Honey Run Covered Bridge near Chico was leveled in the in the fire that ripped through the area late Thursday. All that's left are charred wooden beams, rippled sheet metal and red steel beams protruding from concrete. Armbruster stayed there for almost two hours as the fire burned around him.