which typically contain a lot of other toxic materials from burning houses, other buildings, vehicles, power and telephone lines, etc.
Lolno. It’s very rare for the fires to take out more than a handful of outlying houses. They’re usually not even burning many trees, it’s mostly scrub.
In 2025 the Los Angeles wildfires burned more than 16,000 homes and other buildings. And about 6,300 cars.
An outlier yes, but many of the wildfires do burn a significant number of structures, that’s the main reason firefighters engage with them. The purely chaparral fires (which may be allowed to burn) are more distant from most pregnant women so even though the smoke blows over it’s less concentrated.
Lolno. It’s very rare for the fires to take out more than a handful of outlying houses. They’re usually not even burning many trees, it’s mostly scrub.
Bro, last year Altadena was completely and utterly destroyed. Tens of thousands of people’s houses burnt down.
It’s getting worse every year with climate change
In 2025 the Los Angeles wildfires burned more than 16,000 homes and other buildings. And about 6,300 cars.
An outlier yes, but many of the wildfires do burn a significant number of structures, that’s the main reason firefighters engage with them. The purely chaparral fires (which may be allowed to burn) are more distant from most pregnant women so even though the smoke blows over it’s less concentrated.