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Monday, May 17. I’m Melissa Gomez, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. I usually write about education and the youth, but this week I’ll be catching you up with the latest news.
Even as the sky remained mostly gray on Sunday, fire season appeared to inch closer this year.
A brush fire that broke out in Topanga Canyon on Friday had displaced 1,000 people by Sunday, officials reported. By mid-afternoon, the Palisades fire had grown to 1,325 acres, with 0% contained. Weather conditions appeared favorable, with cool weather and winds that weren’t expected to contribute to the fire’s growth, my colleague Alex Wigglesworth reported.
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Scott Ferguson could see the wildfire burning directly across the canyon as he looked out the window of his Topanga Canyon home Sunday afternoon.
The 30-year resident was monitoring two radios and a stream of Twitter feeds, 18 browser tabs open as he toggled back and forth between weather reports and emergency alerts.
The fire was just over the eastern ridge, and he didn’t think it would reach his home in Fernwood, on the canyon’s western side. But his car was packed just in case.
“This is not normal, to have a big fire like this in May,” said Ferguson, who also serves as board chair of the Topanga Coalition for Emergency Preparedness. “This is the type of thing we’d usually be doing in November.”
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