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The two fires that ravaged the Californian city region of Los Angeles (west of the United States) were completely circumscribed, said the state fire fighting agency (Cal Fire).
On its website, the agency announced on Friday that the two fires, which left around thirty dead and thousands of displaced, were 100%controlled.
The fires of Palisades and Eaton, in the County of Los Angeles, in Southern California, were the most destructive in the history of the second city in the United States. They have burned an area of more than 150 square kilometers and more than 10,000 homes, causing damage whose cost is estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars.
According to, the Private Meteorological Company Accuweather, the damage and economic losses oscillate between 250 and 275 billion dollars.
The two fires broke out on January 7 and their exact cause is still the subject of an investigation.
To believe, a study conducted by dozens of researchers and published this week, climate change has prepared the field for fires by reducing precipitation, drying up the vegetation and extending the dangerous overlap between the dryness conditions conducive to the lights and The powerful winds of Santa Ana, who blow in winter.
