The great fires that swept the Los Angeles County (California) were completely extinguished after three weeks, according to the website of the Fire Department (Cal Fire).
The Palisades fire, the most violent, devastated almost 9500 hectares, while that of Eaton, which affected the city of Pasadena, reduced almost 5700 hectares to ashes; Both appear under the “100 % content” label dated January 31, the agency requires EFE.
EPA Just Launched the Largest Wildfire Cleanup in Agency History!
Over 1,000 @Epa Employees and Other Professionals Are Now in the Field.@EPAREGION9 leading from the front! pic.twitter.com/tkc3xtdmu8
– Epaleezeldin (@epaleezeldin) February 1, 2025
Meanwhile, research on the causes continues while at least 14 people are still missing, according to local media.
Last weekend, the first big storm in the area in about eight months left strong rains that contributed to turn off the flames, whose containment thousands of relief teams have worked.
Donald Trump, who has criticized the management of water and the response to the fires of the governor of California, the Democrat Gavin Newsom, was attributed yesterday to enter a flow of water in the state as a “victory” in the catastrophe.
Trump signed an executive order that instructed half a dozen federal agencies on the delivery of more water to the south of California and the Central Valley to end the fires.
The fire wave, which began on January 7 and forced to evacuate more than 150,000 people, leaves at least 29 dead and more than 16,000 structures destroyed, the Spanish agency quotes.
These fires will go down in the history of the US as one of the most expensive natural disasters.
