Why is Los Angeles on fire?

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Over the past 48 hours, wildfires have consumed acre after acre and building after building across greater Los Angeles. More than 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, and at least five people have died.

The Times’s L.A. bureau chief, Corina Knoll, and our staff ...

The fires that have ripped through Los Angeles county have flattened whole neighborhoods, charring them beyond recognition.  So many people have lost their homes and businesses - some have lost their lives. Why were these fires so powerful, and what comes next for LA? Reporters L ...  Show more

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Early Tuesday, wildfires started burning across Los Angeles County. The scale of the destruction is massive; entire neighborhoods are in flames, with longtime businesses, schools and houses of worship burnt to t ...

It’s been a week since wildfires started sweeping through Los Angeles, California, destroying swathes of the city and reducing communities, homes and schools to little more than rubble and ash. The inferno has now ravaged an area larger than Manhattan. Some fires have been exting ...  Show more