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LA Times | Sunset Boulevard in ruins: Fire’s massive scale comes into focus in Pacific Palisades

January 9, 2025

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Wildfire expert Dr. Mike Flannigan talks to the Los Angeles Times about the elements combining to create the fast-moving blazes in the Palisades in southern California: vegetation, ignition and conducive weather. “If you got all three, then you got a wildfire.” Read more

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