The catastrophic Palisades fire declared in the south of the US state of California has already devastated almost 9,600 hectares of land (95 square kilometers) and It is only controlled at 11 percentthe same percentage as last Saturday at this same time, according to the latest report published today by the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) on its website.
CAL FIRE warns of an ominous outlook for this Sunday, when “strong north-northwest winds with gusts of up to 80 kilometers per hour with low humidity” will be observed. and maintains the red alert in force until at least next Wednesday afternoon (early morning on Thursday in Spain).
Better luck is fighting the state’s second major fire, the Eaton Fire, now 27 percent contained — up from 15 percent yesterday — after having consumed 5,700 hectares. A third outbreak, the Kenneth arson, is 90 percent controlled.
The American authorities Death toll from uncontrolled fires has now risen to 16according to the latest report from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Department published this morning and which attributes five of the deaths to the Palisades fire, compared to eleven to the Eaton flames.
Trump calls local authorities “incompetent”
This Sunday, the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, criticized this Sunday the “incompetence” from local authorities during containment efforts.
“The fires continue to destroy Los Angeles. Incompetent politicians still don’t know how to turn them off. “Thousands of magnificent homes have disappeared and many more are about to disappear,” Trump criticized on his social network Truth Social.
The president-elect is a declared political enemy of the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, one of the leading exponents of the opposition Democratic Party. Newsom has implored Trump to take a break from their rivalry to go to the state to examine first-hand the consequences of the fires but the president-elect has not yet responded to his request, according to the governor himself.
Trump has not mentioned this invitation in his message this Sunday, where he insisted that the fires, particularly those in Palisades and Eaton, have become “one of the worst catastrophes in the history” of the country.
