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With water-dropping aircraft grounded by
winds gusting to nearly 100 miles per hour,
the fires were not contained until a month
later. The Eaton Fire and the Palisades Fire
combined burned over 15,000 hectares of
land, destroyed 16,000 buildings, and killed
29 people. At the peak, 330,000 people
were ordered to evacuate. community recovery is long and hard
work. First, people can not return home
To help those affected by the wildfires, until unsafe waste and polluted water
many people including celebrities raised supplies are cleared by EPA professionals,
money and donated clothes, bottled and electricity and natural gas restored.
water, food, diapers, etc. However, Worse, heavy rainfall is more likely to cause
landslides in the damaged area as burned
soil is less able to absorb water. As many
as seven million Californians were placed
under flood warning on February 13.
The road to recovery is not easy for
the survivors. Their fear of looting during
evacuation is followed by the pressure
from soaring rents and house prices in the
aftermath. In a world with more severe
climate change and more frequent extreme
natural disasters, the January 2025
California wildfires is an example of climate
crises and a wake-up call for all of us.
What can we do to improve environmental
protection and disaster response in the
future? It is time for each of us to think and
take action.
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