Air Quality In Malibu Awful – But It’s Better Than Most Of Western US – No Fires In SM Mtns
Written by 991KBU on September 11, 2020
Three million acres of California have burned this year in California.
So far … none near Malibu.
Our fire season is just starting.
There are no fires burning within 35 miles of Malibu.
But the upper atmosphere here is still thick with accumulated smoke.
The first, third and fourth largest fires in California history are all burning right now.
Smaller fires … burning in eastern Los Angeles and San Bernardino canyons.
The Bobcat Fire … east of Mount Wilson … has chewed thru nearly 25 thousand acres of forest that has not burned in 60 years.
It is burning away from the cities along the 210 Freeway … but has burned all the way to Angeles Crest Highway along old Highway 39.
In the Big Bear Lake area .. the El Dorado Fire is 31 percent contained … at almost 14 thousand acres.
It is burning along Highway 38 near Forest Falls and Mountain Home Village … south of the ski areas.
Officials say fire trucks needs to have full access to the roads up the mountains … highways 18 and 330 … and are asking L-A people not to head to the Lake Arrowhead or Big Bear Lake areas this weekend.
Smoke from these fires is now blowing away from Malibu … away from Los Angeles … and towards the low deserts near Palm Springs … and the high deserts near Barstow.
The death toll from a massive fire that swept through the mountain communities of Butte, Plumas and Yuba counties rose to 10.
16 people remain missing.
The North Complex fire has burned more than 252,000 acres in the moiuntains east of Oroville and south of Paradise.
20,000 people are forced from their homes.
And east of fresno … west of Bishop … the Creek Fire has chewed through more than 175,000 acres in the Sierra Nevada,.
It has destroyed an estimated 360 structures.
The fire was 6% contained last night, and officials said that could grow as weather conditions continue to work in their favor.
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Los Angeles suffered its worst smog in almost 30 years over Labor Day weekend … and that was before the huge brushfres erupted in the San gabriel and San Bernardino mountains.
Lung-damaging ozone pollution in Los Angeles reached its highest levels in a generation and set records in other parts of Southern California during the blistering Labor Day weekend heat wave.
122 was the high over the hill … 110 at Trancas Canyon Park.
The high readings were a result of intense heat combined with stagnant weather conditions and winds that were too weak to sweep away much pollution
Brush fire season is only beginning in Malibu and the Santa Moncia Mountains.
It’s difficult not to wonder what our state will look like when and if the flames subside.
Or if we will ever feel fully safe here again.
