The Santa Monica Mountains, which include the Pacific Palisades ... Some valleys and ridges across the Los Angeles area may serve as natural barriers that slow, or stop, the spread of the fire ...

After flames leveled nearly 500 homes in Bel-Air and Brentwood in 1961, Los Angeles had a reckoning ... and dispatched more crews to the Santa Monica Mountains. To accommodate growth in Pacific ...

Los Angeles is approximately 350 miles from ... dry lightning strikes set off fires driven by strong wind in the Santa Cruz Mountains. That many residents who lost homes in that fire still have ...

All three areas impacted by the fires have one thing in common: they sit at the edges of mountain regions which climate experts suggest may be more prone to fires than other parts of Los Angeles ...