A large fire raging in an area outside Los Angeles has doubled in less than 24 hours, fire officials announced Thursday, ahead of a sweltering heat wave in the western United States.
“The fire is spreading to the east, south and into portions north of the fire spot,” the California wildfire services said.
two dead
Two people have already died in the fire that broke out Monday, amid an extreme heat wave that has swept across California for a week, as well as parts of Nevada and Arizona. With temperatures that touch 45 ° C in some places, which endanger the Californian electrical network.
Grid regulator ISO of California narrowly avoided Tuesday’s rolling blackouts (controlled and spread over different areas).
It renewed its alert on Thursday to urge consumers to reduce their electricity consumption between 3:00 pm and 10:00 pm, two hours longer than previous calls, due to an expected “insufficient supply” in that niche.
“The state and much of the west are enduring a historically long and unprecedented heat wave, straining the grid due to high electricity consumption,” the regulator said.
According to the US weather services, the heat wave should begin to dissipate in the next few days, but California is not out of the woods yet.
Source: BFM TV
