January 24, 2025
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Los Angeles fires release new fire risk maps
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In this long exposure photo, Firefighters arouse Lilac fire in Sanco Diego County, California on January 21, 2025.
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Climatewire | Sacramento, California – Los Angeles fires are delaying new california fire risk maps, with a higher risk than previous versions, the state fire marsal on Wednesday.
What happened
Cal Fire is already behind the program, to place national recommendations on state agencies, in which areas the fire endangered, to the level of the parcel. LA’s firefighters will delay the agency, State Firefighters Daniel Berlanta said a politician in an interview.
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He said he intended to release new recommendations from the northern map of California, and the second of the southern California, in the months to be continued to oversee local officials, the ones needed to review and take maps within three months.
Why this topic
In Cal Fire maps, fire risks of fire risks determine where the State Government is a particular farmer prevention regulations, as the conditions for the introduction of fire buildings and fire risks. Maps that need to be updated every five years that were updated in 2007.
Cal by fire while he ended up New fire hazard areas According to April Jurisdiction of 2024, the rural Field Sutondo field field, has not yet released new fire hazard areas for areas under local jurisdiction, including most urban areas.
Cal Fire updated the zones in 2007, has been developed New scientific model to reflect the risk The extreme fire firefighters fed, as they are violated by Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
The result: even more areas, especially on the edges of the fire hazard areas, will be very high in dangerous fire when updating, Berlant said.
“There will be hard conversations,” Berlant said. “There will be many more cities and now they don’t have counties that will achieve a level of fire.”
Next
Once Cal Fire published new maps, cities and regions should review recommendations, make changes and formally take zones.
Gov. Gavin measurement (D) and legislature Last year in late talks Reform and relieve fire risk maps, but these lectures Half of the opposition stopped They would jeopardize from environmental groups that fear changes. Scott Wiener (d) Scott (D), who wrote the bill, SB 610He said this year soon was soon to decide whether he would re-enter the proposal this year.
Rachel Bluth helped this report.
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