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Celebrity-Laden Pacific Palisades Fire Heightens Climate Concerns As Danger Level Changes To Extreme

Pacific Palisades fire being battled by firefighters

Over a week after the Saddleridge Fires burned 7,500+ acres in the Los Angeles area, firefighters are once again battling the flames on Monday, this time in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where many celebs call home.

According to reports, a brush fire broke out at 10:30 a.m. and has already left over 30 acres scorched, with several mandatory evacuations in order. As of this writing, there is no containment number.

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Fire officials have confirmed the Palisades Fire is threatening homes along its path, and we can only hope residents are taking these orders seriously. The affluent area boasts multi-million dollar homes, with some having belonged to John Mayer, Rihanna, Bradley Cooper, and many more.

Thankfully, there are no reports of any injuries or structures damaged, as the Los Angeles Fire Department continues to work on battling these flames.

Mayor Eric Garcetti took to Twitter about the latest news, writing:

“Our @LAFD is on scene and coordinating air and ground resources to fight the #PalisadesFire.

Please make room for emergency vehicles in surrounding areas and follow instructions from public safety officials.”

And plenty more people on the social media site are reacting to the terrifying blaze working its way in the area:

As you may or may not remember, it was less than a year ago when wildfires ravaged the Malibu area, with many losing their homes, including then-couple Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth. It was also around the same time last November, when the Woosley fires threatened Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West‘s Hidden Hills mansion, among others.

Destruction and tragedy also struck with the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive fire EVER in California’s history. Donald Trump visited the small town of Paradise, which was nearly completely destroyed by the blaze, and while speaking to media, he said he believed raking leaves was the key to less destruction.

Here’s what Trump spilled:

“We’ve gotta take care of the floors, you know, the floors of the forest. It’s very important. You look at other countries where they do it differently and it’s a whole different story. I was with the president of Finland and he said, ‘We’re a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation. And they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things. And they don’t have any problem. And when it is, it’s a very small problem.”

Just one day earlier, in an interview on Fox News, he suggested it could help prevent wildfires, saying:

“I was watching the firemen the other day, and they were raking areas. They were raking areas where the fire was right over there. They’re raking trees, little trees like this that are nut trees, little bushes, that you could see are totally dry. Weeds. And they’re raking them, they’re on fire. That should have been all raked out.”

It doesn’t take an expert to tell you that raking the forest won’t stop fires from spreading.

The Angeles National Forest Twitter account shared today:

“Due to upcoming wind events and drying fuels, we have changed our fire danger level to EXTREME, which means no building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire in all of the national forest. https://go.usa.gov/xp3rD”

The National Weather Service also posted:

California’s wildfire season is only getting longer as the climate warms (global warming is real, y’all!).

A report in The Atlantic, published in July, cited a study in Earth’s Future thyat found the state’s wildfire crisis is indeed driven by climate change. Just since 1972, the annual burned area has increased more than five times, with summertime forest fires increasing in size by “roughly 800 percent.”

This is serious!

Park Williams, the paper’s author and climate scientist at Columbia University, shared to the publication:

“Each degree of warming causes way more fire than the previous degree of warming did. And that’s a really big deal. Heat is the most clear result of human-caused climate change.”

The paper stated:

“The clearest link between California wildfire and anthropogenic climate change thus far has been via warming-driven increases in atmospheric aridity, which works to dry fuels and promote summer forest fire. It is well established that warming promotes wildfire throughout the western US, particularly in forested regions, by enhancing atmospheric moisture demand and reducing summer soil moisture as snowpack declines.”

When it comes to fall fires, like what Cali has been experiencing this past month, “climate models do suggest that autumn fires across California will get more common as climate change continues to wrack the state.”

Williams explained:

“Revisit this in 20 more years, and we’ll almost definitely be saying, ‘Yeah, fall fires have the global-warming fingerprint on them.’ But right now we’re still emerging from the range of natural variability.”

With the way things are looking now, it certainly seems that way.

As strong winds like the Santa Anas surge and dry out vegetation, along with the low humidity, it gives more ground for wildfires to spread.

Considering the fire danger level is at extreme, please stay safe out there, Perezcious readers!!

[Image via KTLA 5/YouTube]

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Oct 21, 2019 14:49pm PDT

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