The wildfires in California have been a hot topic the past few months. Wildfires have been tearing through California causing millions of billions of dollars of damage, lost of life and of land. The most recent fires are in Southern California. The fires are nearly touching the busiest highway 405 freeway, UCLA, and Getty Museum. The fires have been started by high temperatures and currently in a drought. The fire is spreading at a rapid pace because winds are 80 MPH+. Firefighters are trying their best to contain and destroy the fire. The fires are awful and there nothing we can really do about it. The firefighters are doing their best the keep the fire back but other than that the best we can do it stay safe and pray rain comes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/us/california-fires.html

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  1. AnonymousDecember 15, 2017 at 7:01 AM

    The fires really are awful and all of the damage they are doing and they lives they are taking is awful too.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 15, 2017 at 7:29 AM

    It is interesting how we are talking about the different types of biomes and their characteristics. One of the characteristics of the Chaparral was that it was prone to forest fires because the summer is very dry. Southern California is a Chaparral so it is naturally dry there, but it has been going through a drought which makes the conditions even worse. It is good to see the people of California doing all that they can to protect everyone against the fires.

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