Water-Bombing Efforts Intensify In Los Angeles As Wildfire Rages | California Wildfires

Firefighters raced Saturday to chop off spreading wildfires earlier than probably robust winds return that would push the flames towards the world well-known J. Paul Getty Museum and the College of California, Los Angeles, whereas new evacuation warnings left extra owners on edge.
A fierce battle in opposition to the flames was underway in Mandeville Canyon, house to Arnold Schwarzenegger and different celebrities not removed from the Pacific coast, the place swooping helicopters dumped water because the blaze charged downhill.
Firefighters on the bottom used hoses in an try and beat again leaping flames as thick smoke blanketed the chaparral-covered hillside.
Solely mild breezes had been fanning the flames, however the Nationwide Climate Service warned that domestically robust Santa Ana winds — the nemesis of firefighters — may quickly return.
These winds have been blamed for turning wildfires into infernos that leveled whole neighborhoods within the LA space, the place there was no important rainfall in additional than eight months.