Southern California gets rain that affects it after weeks of fire, but toxic ash and clay collapses are a concern

The first important storm of this season brought snow and humiliation to southern California, which hit forest fires and caused the flow of some ashes and clay across the streets in the Los Angeles area on Monday.

More than 2.5 centimeters of rain fell in many areas, which reduced the burned Los Angeles hills from the last fire near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where the crews have cleared the arrogant roads, including the famous Pacific coast road. The Santa Monica Malibu School area said in a statement in a statement that in the neighboring Malibu, four schools were closed on Monday “due to dangerous road conditions.”

The clouds were cleansing, but the hours of the floods of the pockets of the rain are still valid for the areas that revolve around the fire in Palisades, Altadena and Castaic Lake.

“All these fresh burns are very vulnerable to the rapid surface flow,” said Joe Cereard, the meteorological world of the Los Angeles National Weather Office.

Parts of San Diego Province have received more than 2.5 centimeters of rain, while other areas are lower.

Urging the residents returning to wear protective equipment

The rain started on Saturday after months of dry weather and often causing dangerous fire conditions. The Los Angeles Province has spent most of them last week removing the vegetation, gathering slopes and strengthening roads in areas destroyed by the Balazades and Eiton fires, which reduced the entire neighborhoods to the rubble and ash after their outbreak during the strong winds on January 7.

The rain ended a semi -standard line of dry weather for South California. Most of the southern California is currently “severe drought” or “severe drought”, according to American dehydration.

The concerns related to the drop in the drop after the shooting were especially high since 2018, when the town of Montesseo was combined on the coast of Los Angeles, through muddrops after it hit rain from the charred mountain slopes with a huge partition. Hundreds of houses were damaged and 23 people died.

The rain in San Diego Province of Firefighters helped make significant progress against the smaller border fire that flows across a remote area in the Outai Mountain wilderness near the borders of the United States and Mexico.

Los Angeles officials and boycott of cleaning efforts and other measures aimed at alleviating the environmental effects of fire -related pollutants.

Officials have warned that ash in the last burning areas was a poisonous mixture of burning cars, electronics, batteries, building materials, paints, furniture and other household items. It contains pesticides, asbestos, plastic and lead.

Residents have been urged to wear protective equipment during cleaning.

Pacific Palisades, as of Monday, was allowed to return home for the first time since the fire, although they are undergoing a curfew from 6 am to 6 pm.

Eaton Fire video clips have been checked

The Palisades fire, the largest fire that destroyed thousands of houses and killed at least 12 people, reached 94 percent on Monday.

The Hughes fire, which was lit north of Los Angeles last week and caused evacuation orders or warnings of more than 50,000 people.

Since its outbreak on January 7, Eaton Fire has burned 57 square kilometers east of Los Angeles, destroyed 9,418 structures, harmed 1073 structures and caused 17 deaths. 99 percent was content from Monday, according to the Ministry of Forests and Fire Protection in California.

On Monday, southern California Edison informed an error in the connection line connected away from those near Etone fire.

Edison says that there is no evidence that its equipment caused the fire, which destroyed more than 9000 structures in the community of Altadena and around the community. The official investigation of the fire case was not completed.

The new deposit of the benefit comes to the California Public Utilities Committee on the same day as a court hearing in a case brought by lawyers to the owner of a house whose property was destroyed in the fire. Lawyers claim that the tool equipment set fire, pointing to the video that was captured during the early minutes of the fire, which shows large fire under the electric towers.

Lawyers have now presented a new video that they say highlighting the bending and electricity on a transport tower in Etone Canyon before the wind put fire in a fast -moving and destructive fire. They say that the video came from security footage of the fuel station.

In his new file, Edison stated that the error occurred at 6:11 pm on January 7. While those lines that lived the error do not pass Etone Canyon, they are connected to the system, which were suffering from an increase, the utility.

The utility said: “The current increase remained within the design limits and operating standards for these circles, and as is intended, it did not lead to the protection of the system on these lines.”

Kathleen Denlifi, a spokeswoman for Southern California Edison, said the company had received Footage of the fuel station video from the New York TimesWho published a weekend report on the origins of the fire, and contacted the authorities to ensure that they got the video as well. She said it is too early to comment on the footage, as experts achieved the cause of the fire.

Evangelin’s lawyers residing in Altadena have argued that, together, the error video and the fuel station provides “evidence of the presence of SCE equipment in Eiton Canyon the initial source With the line on the tower that erupted in the flame.

The video and pictures taken by the residents also took the fire under the Edison Electrical Towers in the Iton Canyon area in the first minutes of the fire. One of the residents said he heard a loud voice at the beginning of the fire.