The iconic landscape of Los Angeles County and its surrounding region have been forever transformed by a massive, multi-front firestorm that has leveled an area more than twice the size of
The scale of the effort will be vast — the area scorched by the major fires is equal to three times the size of Manhattan.
For more perspective, Central Park in NYC is only 843 acres. So, the wildfire is currently the equivalent of almost 24 Central Parks combined. Actually, the entirety of Manhattan is 14,600 acres, or 22.81 square miles, so the Palisades Fire is bigger than the whole borough.
The Pacific Palisades blaze has wreaked havoc on over 5,000 structures and is set to reshape Los Angeles long after it burns out.
The damage the Southern California wildfires have inflicted in the Los Angeles area so far is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars.
The wildfires in Southern California have led to the evacuations of over 130,000 people and have destroyed over 10,000 structures. Overlaying the wildfire outbreak across other major U.S. cities shows that the blaze is one of the worst in United States history, as it continues to spread across residential areas in Los Angeles.
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Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.
Residents of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood near Los Angeles, California, are now taking stock of widespread devastation as a wind-driven wildfire continues to burn through the community.
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Tourism officials are looking for signs of what short- and long-term toll the wildfires that struck the Los Angeles area may take on its prowess as a tourism destination.
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