California wildfires still blazing.Summary: Firefighters are still battling four wildfires around the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area in California. Firefighters battling four wildfires around Los Angeles have saved hundreds of homes in a coastal community. However, they are still struggling against a larger fire coming down the mountains toward another exclusive suburb. With temperatures above 100 Fahrenheit, flames flared above La Canada Flintridge, 12 miles from downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or and home to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. . Nearly 900 homes have been evacuated and 1,500 acres have burned in just two days. "It is very active but hasn't reached the neighborhoods yet," said Gabriel Alvarez of the U.S. Forest Service. Aircraft have been dropping water and retardant re·tar·dant adj. Acting or tending to retard. Often used in combination: flame-retardant pajamas for children; a fire-retardant security chest. on the steep terrain, while some residents stayed behind to hose down Verb 1. hose down - water with a hose; "hose the lawn" hose irrigate, water - supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields" the roofs, trees and lawns of their multimillion-dollar homes. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] declared a state of emergency for Los Angeles and Monterey counties due to wildfires that have burned 13,000 acres. Two more large fires burned further inland, making this week the worst conflagration in Los Angeles since November 2008, when multiple fires burned hundreds of dwellings. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion