Strong winds bring 'major risk' of wildfires to L.A., Ventura counties - Los Angeles Times
Any fire this week “may grow rapidly in size with extreme fire behavior,” the National Weather Service said. The public is urged to be cautious with potential sources of ignition such as fireworks, cigarette butts, campfires and machinery sparks.
In November, a wind-driven wildfire in Ventura County razed 243 buildings and damaged dozens more in Camarillo and nearby communities, authorities said. The tally placed the Mountain fire as the third most destructive wildfire in Southern California since at least 2013.
Corinne Purtill is a science and medicine reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her writing on science and human behavior has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Time Magazine, the BBC, Quartz and elsewhere. Before joining The Times, she worked as the senior London correspondent for GlobalPost (now PRI) and as a reporter and assignment editor at the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. She is a native of Southern California and a graduate of Stanford University.
