California fires live: Los Angeles fighting largest blaze in its history amid water and firefighting shortages
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Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, described the impact of the fires and winds affecting the area as “devastating”. In a statement posted to X, Bass said she spoke to the president, Joe Biden, where they discussed an “urgent path forward towards recovery for the thousands of families impacted.”.
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Bass has come under criticism for being out of the country as wildfires tear through parts of Southern California. She was part of a US delegation to Accra for the inauguration of the president of Ghana, John Mahama. The Los Angeles metro has suspended fares for the remainder of the day.
In an update posted a short while ago, LA County supervisor Janice Hahn said metro services have been impacted by evacuation orders near the Easton fire. “Given the extraordinary demands on the power grid and sporadic outages in numerous areas, we recognize it is difficult for many customers to buy and load their TAP cards at stations,” she said.
Residents of Los Angeles fled deadly wildfires engulfing the suburbs of the West Coast megalopolis, as firefighters struggled to contain the flames overnight amid fears they would worsen. Tanner Charles posted this footage to X saying it showed “the moment my friend and I abandoned his house after we tried to save what we could.
“Please be praying for him and his family,” Charles wrote. About 1.5 million residents are without power in California, with nearly a million of them in Los Angeles County, according to PowerOutage.us, as wildfires continue to rage across the region.
