Wind-driven wildfires burned largely uncontrolled in tinder-dry California early...
LOS ANGELES - Wind-driven wildfires burned largely uncontrolled in tinder-dry California early on Tuesday, as firefighters battled blazes threatening thousands of homes in a race against time with even stronger gusts expected later.
“I know this moment generates a tremendous amount of anxiety,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday about the two major blazes burning at opposite ends of the state. “The winds in the south will really pick up, 50-to-70 mph with some gusts up to 80 mph in the Los Angeles mountain area.” This is on top of the 970,000 customers already shut off, although about half of those were restored by Monday night, the company announced.
The so-called Getty fire covered more than 600 acres in the scrub-covered hills around Interstate 405, near some of the city’s most expensive homes.The Getty fire prompted the University of California at Los Angeles, about 2 miles from the Getty Center, to close for the day, along with a number of public schools.Los Angeles Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas said his firefighters had told him “they were literally overwhelmed” in the early hours of the Getty fire.
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