{"id":209669,"date":"2025-01-11T06:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T06:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-los-angeles-could-have-minimized-the-damage-from-the-wildfires\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T06:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T06:04:01","slug":"how-los-angeles-could-have-minimized-the-damage-from-the-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-los-angeles-could-have-minimized-the-damage-from-the-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"How Los Angeles could have minimized the damage from the wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/Eelr33VDy7U\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How Los Angeles could have minimized the damage from the wildfires\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eelr33VDy7U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Even as flames in Southern California continued to carve a destructive path on Friday and fire officials sought to assess the damage and determine how the fires began, a larger question loomed: Could this level of devastation somehow have been minimized, or is this simply the new normal in an era of climate-related calamities?<br \/>\nA CNN review of government reports and interviews with more than a dozen experts suggests the ultimate answer is a mix of both.<br \/>\nLos Angeles city and county officials have characterized the fires as a \u201cperfect storm\u201d event in which hurricane-force gusts of up to 100 miles per hour prevented them from deploying crucial aircraft that could have dropped water and fire retardant on the drought-ravaged neighborhoods early on. The consensus of experts interviewed by CNN was that the combination of those winds, unseasonably dry conditions and multiple fires breaking out one after another in the same geographic region made widespread destruction inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>#CNN #News #NickWatt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as flames in Southern California continued to carve a destructive path on Friday and fire officials sought to assess the damage and determine how the fires began, a larger question loomed: Could this level of devastation somehow have been minimized, or is this simply the new normal in an era of climate-related calamities? 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