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Impossible to contain … firefighters battle the Eaton blaze.
Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images
‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild
A century of foolhardy development, including public subsidies for rebuilding in the firebelt, hugely contributed to this tragedy, writes our architecture critic. LA must rethink – and build upwards not outwards G Wed 15 Jan 2025 17.49 CET Last modified on Wed 15 Jan 2025 22.43 CET
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jan/15/
Los Angeles, California, US
The Palisades fire burns in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood. Crews were combing through the rubble in Los Angeles with cadaver dogs in search of victims of the still-burning fire, which has reduced entire neighbourhoods to ash.
Fast-moving wildfires, fanned by hurricane-force winds, have rampaged through communities this week, forcing nearly 180,000 people to evacuate and killing at least 10
Photograph: Ethan Swope AP
The week around the world in 20 pictures California wildfires, Donald Trump’s sentencing, hunger in Khan Younis and freezing temperatures in London: the past seven days as captured by the
world’s leading photojournalists this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing G Fri 10 Jan 2025 20.25 CET
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/jan/10/
Altadena, California, US
A man walks past a fire-ravaged business after the Eaton fire swept through Altadena.
Human-caused climate breakdown is supercharging extreme weather across the world, including wildfires.
In California, the fire season now begins earlier and ends later.
Photograph: Ethan Swope AP
The week around the world in 20 pictures California wildfires, Donald Trump’s sentencing, hunger in Khan Younis and freezing temperatures in London: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists • Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing G Fri 10 Jan 2025 20.25 CET
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/jan/10/
Los Angeles, US A home is engulfed in flames during the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of California
Photograph: Josh Edelson AFP/Getty Images
Egyptian discoveries and LA fires: photos of the day – Wednesday The Guardian’s picture editors select photos from around the world Selected by Natasha Rees-Bloor G Wed 8 Jan 2025 15.33 CET
https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2025/jan/08/
Running Springs, California
Highway 330 is engulfed by flames
Photograph: David Swanson AFP/Getty Images
The week around the world in 20 pictures The evacuation of Pokrovsk, wildfires in California, the presidential debate in Philadelphia and Typhoon Yagi: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists G Fri 13 Sep 2024 20.00 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/sep/13/
Grant Douglas pauses while evacuating as the Park Fire jumps Highway 36 near Paynes Creek in Tehama County, Calif., on Friday.
Photograph: Noah Berger AP
The massive Park Fire in California has already scorched an area larger than L.A. July 28, 2024 10:40 AM ET The Associated Press NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/28/
Law enforcement officers watch as the fire burns over Lake Oroville
Photograph: Josh Edelson AFP/Getty Images
Thompson fire spreads in Oroville, California – in pictures Fire crews in California are battling a wildfire in Butte County that forced about 13,000 people to evacuate in and around Oroville. The Thompson fire broke out before noon on Tuesday and grew to more than 3 sq miles by evening G Wed 3 Jul 2024 09.52 CEST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2024/jul/03/
Fires 372 and 373, threatening the Indigenous village of Obedjiwan and being fought by French firefighting crews.
Photograph: Renaud Philippe
‘The Fires Here Are Unstoppable’ The first foreign firefighters to reach Quebec amid Canada’s worst wildfire season on record said that some of the blazes were 100 times bigger than any they had ever seen. NYT June 17, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/
A forest is devastated by the Oak fire, as thousands of people have evacuated their homes near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa.
Photograph: David McNew AFP/Getty Images
California wildfires – in pictures An out of control wildfire is raging close to Yosemite national park G Mon 25 Jul 2022 09.10 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2022/jul/25/
Vehicles are driven along interstate 80 as flames from the LNU Lighting Complex fire burn on the outskirts of Vacaville.
Photograph: Noah Berger AP
20 photographs of the week California wildfires, the aftermath of the Beirut explosion, demonstrations after the election in Belarus and the impact of Covid-19: the most striking images from around the world. G Sat 22 Aug 2020 08.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/22/
Fire trucks drive over the Bidwell Bar Bridge in thick smoke
Photograph: Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times/Rex/Shutterstock
Burned homes, thick smoke, shattered lives: wildfires' aftermath – in pictures At least 35 people have died and hundreds of structures have burned in serious wildfires in Oregon, California and Washington. Democratic governors of all three states say the fires are a consequence of climate change G Tue 15 Sep 2020 16.21 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/sep/15/
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