The Los Angeles fires share a key feature with wildfires that burned down Lahaina, Hawaii and Paradise, CaliforniaPowerful winds met flash-dried landscapes full of vegetation to fuel the flames.
The Los Angeles firestorms of the past week share a crucial feature with two of the most horrific wildfires in recent American memory.
ADSmoke from Pacific Palisades rises from brown, parched hills above the Pacific Coast Highway.
ADThe Palisades Fire burns a Christmas tree inside a residence in the Pacific Palisades.
Yard vegetation burns outside a house in the Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire spreads.
Persons:
Ethan Swope, There's, Louis Gritzo, Angeles Ringo Chiu, Gritzo, David Hume Kennerly, Daniel Swain, Swain, Gavin Schmidt, Schmidt, David Swanson, Pat Durland, Durland
Organizations:
Fire, AP, UCLA, Environment, Palisades, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Getty, National Fire Protection Association
Locations:
Lahaina, Hawaii, Paradise , California, Los, Los Angeles, Hawaii —, Pacific Palisades, Southern California, Europe, East, China, Brazil, Chile, Australia, Canada, AFP