Five football fields a minute: How a perfect storm of extreme weather set off Los Angeles wildfires Rising temperatures have created the ideal conditions for “extreme, high severity wildfires that spread rapidly,” according to the California Air Resources Board.
All they can do is try to get ahead of it and hope there are enough natural fire breaks, in the form of rivers, open areas with little vegetation, that maybe can slow it down a little bit.
There’s nothing the fire crews can physically do to stop this fire.
“The smoke is a toxic soup,” Brian Rice, president of the statewide California Professional Firefighters union said on Wednesday, imploring tourists to stay out of the vicinity.
Normally, fires burn vertically, according to Corbett, who previously served as assistant chief of the Waldwick, New Jersey FD.
