- 09 Οκτ 2024, 23:17
#874308
Ξυλόκαστρο: Κακουργηματική δίωξη στον αντιδήμαρχο για τη φονική πυρκαγιά
Δίωξη για κακούργημα ασκήθηκε νωρίτερα σήμερα σε βάρος του αντιδημάρχου Ξυλοκάστρου – Ευρωστίνης για τη φωτιά της 29ης Σεπτεμβρίου που κόστισε τη ζωή σε δύο άνδρες και κατέκαψε 71.000 στρέμματα δάσους.
Ο εισαγγελέας Κορίνθου μελέτησε τη δικογραφία που σχημάτισε η Διεύθυνση Αντιμετώπισης Εγκλημάτων Εμπρησμού και έκρινε ότι υπάρχουν επαρκείς ενδείξεις για την άσκηση δίωξης για εμπρησμό από τον οποίο προέκυψε θάνατος.
Το αδίκημα επισύρει ποινή κάθειρξης από 10 έως 20 χρόνια.
Ο αντιδήμαρχος κατηγορείται ότι προκάλεσε τη φωτιά ενώ κάπνιζε τα μελίσσια που είχε στην περιοχή, παρά τον δείκτη επικινδυνότητας. Την παρουσία του στο σημείο είχε αποκαλύψει αυτόπτης μάρτυρας.
Ο ίδιος είχε αποκρύψει αρχικά ότι βρισκόταν στα μελίσσια του. Επειτα από κατάθεση αυτόπτη μάρτυρα και κατοίκου της περιοχής στις Αρχές, που ανέφερε ότι ο εν λόγω αντιδήμαρχος εθεάθη να προβαίνει σε αυτήν την ενέργεια, ο ίδιος παραδέχθηκε ότι κάπνιζε τα μελίσσια του, 200-250 μέτρα από το σημείο της έναρξης της πυρκαγιάς.
Θα απολογηθεί τις επόμενες ημέρες ενώπιον στελεχών της πυροσβεστικής υπηρεσίας.
https://www.kathimerini.gr/society/5632 ... -pyrkagia/
- 17 Δεκ 2024, 15:23
#878772
Οταν η φωτιά έρχεται από τα καλώδια
Η οδός Αμάλθειας, ένα στενό δρομάκι με διάσπαρτες κατοικίες, προσεγγίσθηκε τον περασμένο Αύγουστο από τους ανακριτικούς υπαλλήλους της Πυροσβεστικής ως το σημείο μηδέν της μεγάλης πυρκαγιάς στη Βορειοανατολική Αττική. Από τη μια πλευρά κοιτάζει στο βάθος τον Νότιο Ευβοϊκό και από την άλλη τον οικισμό του Βαρνάβα, που απέχει περίπου τρία χιλιόμετρα. Το μαύρο αποτύπωμα της φωτιάς σε ένα χωράφι αρχικά μαρτύρησε και την πιθανή αφετηρία της. Οι ανακριτικοί υπάλληλοι έκριναν ότι ξεκίνησε από εκεί, κοντά σε έναν ξύλινο στύλο ηλεκτροδότησης.
https://www.kathimerini.gr/society/5633 ... a-kalodia/
Η οδός Αμάλθειας, ένα στενό δρομάκι με διάσπαρτες κατοικίες, προσεγγίσθηκε τον περασμένο Αύγουστο από τους ανακριτικούς υπαλλήλους της Πυροσβεστικής ως το σημείο μηδέν της μεγάλης πυρκαγιάς στη Βορειοανατολική Αττική. Από τη μια πλευρά κοιτάζει στο βάθος τον Νότιο Ευβοϊκό και από την άλλη τον οικισμό του Βαρνάβα, που απέχει περίπου τρία χιλιόμετρα. Το μαύρο αποτύπωμα της φωτιάς σε ένα χωράφι αρχικά μαρτύρησε και την πιθανή αφετηρία της. Οι ανακριτικοί υπάλληλοι έκριναν ότι ξεκίνησε από εκεί, κοντά σε έναν ξύλινο στύλο ηλεκτροδότησης.
https://www.kathimerini.gr/society/5633 ... a-kalodia/
- 18 Δεκ 2024, 15:07
#878851
10 ώρες τη μέρα αφιερώνουν οι ειδήσεις στην TV για την κάθε οικογενειακή τραγωδία και ούτε καν αναφορά για αυτά που επηρέασαν χιλιάδες κόσμου. Και θα ξανασυμβούν...
- 18 Δεκ 2024, 16:39
#878854
Το να κανεις ρεπορταζ μονον για τις ευθυνες της ΔΕΗ για τις φωτιες, ειναι λιγο περιεργο νομιζω. Η ειμαι εγω τωρα καχυποπτος;? Δηλαδη, το οτι η φωτια εφτασε στο Χαλανδρι, φταιει η κολωνα που ξεκινησε, η αυτοι που δεν καταφεραν να την σβησουν?
- 08 Ιαν 2025, 10:29
#879804
Los Angeles declares a state of emergency as a wildfire explodes from 10 acres to more than 2,900 acres in hours
Fire chief Kristin Crowley orders more than 30,000 people to evacuate, and says 13,000 buildings are under threat
Dramatic footage shows houses ablaze in the Pacific Palisades area and residents abandoning their cars to flee the flames
The fire broke out about 10:30 (18:30 GMT) on Tuesday and it exploded in size, fanned by 50 mph (80km/h) wind gusts and incredibly dry conditions
A second brush fire has also started spreading quickly about 40km (26 miles) inland from the Palisades
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y81zyp1ext
Fire chief Kristin Crowley orders more than 30,000 people to evacuate, and says 13,000 buildings are under threat
Dramatic footage shows houses ablaze in the Pacific Palisades area and residents abandoning their cars to flee the flames
The fire broke out about 10:30 (18:30 GMT) on Tuesday and it exploded in size, fanned by 50 mph (80km/h) wind gusts and incredibly dry conditions
A second brush fire has also started spreading quickly about 40km (26 miles) inland from the Palisades
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y81zyp1ext
- 08 Ιαν 2025, 11:18
#879806
τώρα κοιτούσα video που έχει κλείσει δρόμος από τα παρατημένα αυτοκίνητα και η πυροσβεστική έφερε μπουλντόζα που τα σπρώχνει στις άκρες για να ανοίξει το δρόμο.
- 08 Ιαν 2025, 13:38
#879823
Απίστευτες εικόνες. Και είναι ακόμα πιο απίστευτες γιατί είμαστε στην καρδιά του χειμώνα
- 08 Ιαν 2025, 13:41
#879825
Δεν έχουν τον χειμώνα του βορρά εκεί.
Το Λος Άντζελες έχει μεσογειακό κλίμα με ξηρά καλοκαίρια και έχει λίγο περισσότερες ετήσιες βροχοπτώσεις απ'ότι για να χαρακτηριστεί ημιερημικό. Το Λος Άντζελες έχει ηλιοφάνεια καθόλη τη διάρκεια του έτους και οι μέρες βροχοπτώσεων ετησίως είναι μόλις 35.
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE ... E%B5%CF%82
Το Λος Άντζελες έχει μεσογειακό κλίμα με ξηρά καλοκαίρια και έχει λίγο περισσότερες ετήσιες βροχοπτώσεις απ'ότι για να χαρακτηριστεί ημιερημικό. Το Λος Άντζελες έχει ηλιοφάνεια καθόλη τη διάρκεια του έτους και οι μέρες βροχοπτώσεων ετησίως είναι μόλις 35.
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE ... E%B5%CF%82
Drive quick but safe and stay calm.
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- 08 Ιαν 2025, 13:48
#879826
Ναι, οκ, άλλωστε είναι στο ίδιο γεωγραφικό πλάτος με το Ραμπάτ στο Μαρόκο, αλλά και πάλι, αν καίγονται έτσι τον χειμώνα, το καλοκαίρι τι θα γίνει;
- 08 Ιαν 2025, 17:28
#879838
Firefighters say 'no possibility' of containing multiple LA wildfires
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y81zyp1ext
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y81zyp1ext
- 09 Ιαν 2025, 13:18
#879912
- 09 Ιαν 2025, 13:49
#879920
Θα φταιει η ΔΕΗ μαλλον και εκει. Και η κλιματικη αλλαγη.
- 09 Ιαν 2025, 14:51
#879923
https://x.com/ayeejuju/status/1877213896739627214
Με τέτοιους ανέμους, καμία τύχη
Με τέτοιους ανέμους, καμία τύχη
- 09 Ιαν 2025, 15:19
#879925
It’s not really the right time for nasty California fires. What are the factors that changed that?
Video: https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/b ... 77d6afa443
BY SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 1:55 AM EET, January 9, 2025
Southern California is experiencing it’s most devastating winter fires in more than four decades. Fires don’t usually blaze at this time of year, but specific ingredients have come together to defy the calendar in a fast and deadly manner.
Start with supersized Santa Ana winds whipping flames and embers at 100 mph — much faster than normal — and cross that with the return of extreme drought. Add on weather whiplash that grew tons of plants in downpours then record high temperatures that dried them out to make easy-to-burn fuel. Then there’s a plunging and unusual jet stream, and lots of power lines flapping in those powerful gusts.
Experts say that’s what is turning wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration.
A man walks past a fire-ravaged business after the Eaton Fire swept through Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Speed is the killer
“Tiny, mighty and fast” fires have blazed through America’s west in the last couple of decades as the world warms, said University of Colorado fire scientist Jennifer Balch. She published a study in the journal Science last October that looked at 60,000 fires since 2001 and found that the fastest-growing ones have more than doubled in frequency since 2001 and caused far more destruction that slower, larger blazes.
“Fires have gotten faster,” Balch said Wednesday. “The big culprit we’re suspecting is a warming climate that’s making it easier to burn fuels when conditions are just right.”
Summer fires are bigger usually, but they don’t burn nearly as fast. Winter fires “are much more destructive because they happen much more quickly” said U.S. Geological Survey fire scientist Jon Keeley.
AccuWeather estimated damage from the latest fires could reach $57 billion, with the private firm’s chief meteorologist, Jonathan Porter, saying “it may become the worst wildfire in modern California history based on the number of structures burned and economic loss.”
A firefighter battles the Eaton Fire Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025 in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Conditions are ideal
“It’s really just the perfect alignment of everything in the atmosphere to give you this pattern and strong wind,” said Tim Brown, director of the Western Regional Climate Center.
Wind speed and the speed of spreading flames are clearly linked.
“The impact increases exponentially as wind speed increases,” said fire scientist Mike Flannigan of Thompson Rivers University in Canada. If firefighters can get to the flames within 10 minutes or so, it’s spread can be contained, but “15 minutes, it’s too late and it’s gone. The horse has left the barn.”
There’s no sure link between Santa Ana winds — gusts from the east that come down the mountains, gain speed and hit the coast — to human-caused climate change, said Daniel Swain, climate scientist for the California Institute for Water Resources.
But a condition that led to those winds is a big plunge in the temperature of the jet stream — the river of air that moves weather systems across the globe — which helped bring cold air to the eastern two-thirds of the nation, said University of California Merced climate and fire scientist John Abatzoglou. Other scientists have preliminarily linked those jet stream plunges to climate change.
Santa Ana winds are happening later and later in the year, moving more from the drier fall to the wetter winter, Keeley said. Normally, that would reduce fire threats, but this isn’t a normal time.
Fire crews begin to clear a toppled tree in the aftermath of the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)
Dry fuel makes it worse
After two soaking winters, when atmospheric rivers dumped huge amounts of water on the region causing lots of plants to grow, a fast onset of drought dried them out, providing perfect tinder, according to Swain and Abatzoglou.
Swain says this weather whiplash is happening more often.
There is a clear link between climate change and the more frequent dry falls and winters that provide fuel for fires, Swain said.
These devastating fires couldn’t happen without the dry and hot conditions, nor would they be blazing without the extreme wind speed, Abatzoglou and others said.
Thick heavy smoke from wildfires passes over the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
It’s also a people problem
The human factor in this can’t be ignored, said Keeley.
“I think that we need to look at it from the perspective of global changes. And climate is just one global change. And certainly one of the other important global changes is population growth. And California has been growing at a phenomenal rate in the last 20 years,” Keeley said. “You add more people and that means you add more power lines and more potential for failure to occur.”
While the ignition sources for these fires have yet to be determined, Flannigan bets they’ll end up being power lines blown down by high winds. That’s what started California’s devastating fires in 2016 and 2017, leading to utility Pacific Gas & Electric declaring bankruptcy after facing $30 billion in lawsuits.
The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
The calendar seems wrong
An analysis of 423 California wildfires that have grown to at least 15 square miles (39 square kilometers) since 1984 shows only four of those burned during the winter. About two-thirds of those larger fires sparked in June, July or August.
Federal data shows just six wildfires have burned more than 2 square miles (5 square kilometers) in any January in California since 1984. Until the Palisades and Eaton fires this year, the largest had been the Viejas Fire, which burned 17.1 square miles (44.3 square kilometers) in 2001 in the mountains east of San Diego.
“Winter wildfires should be an oxymoron,” University of Colorado’s Balch said. “Well, because, you know, temperatures drop and we get precipitation. We’re supposed to get precipitation.”
Fire officials used to talk about fire seasons, said David Acuña, a battalion chief for Cal Fire: “Now we talk about fire years.”
https://apnews.com/article/fire-devasta ... fb22c8fcc5
Video: https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/b ... 77d6afa443
BY SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 1:55 AM EET, January 9, 2025
Southern California is experiencing it’s most devastating winter fires in more than four decades. Fires don’t usually blaze at this time of year, but specific ingredients have come together to defy the calendar in a fast and deadly manner.
Start with supersized Santa Ana winds whipping flames and embers at 100 mph — much faster than normal — and cross that with the return of extreme drought. Add on weather whiplash that grew tons of plants in downpours then record high temperatures that dried them out to make easy-to-burn fuel. Then there’s a plunging and unusual jet stream, and lots of power lines flapping in those powerful gusts.
Experts say that’s what is turning wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration.
A man walks past a fire-ravaged business after the Eaton Fire swept through Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Speed is the killer
“Tiny, mighty and fast” fires have blazed through America’s west in the last couple of decades as the world warms, said University of Colorado fire scientist Jennifer Balch. She published a study in the journal Science last October that looked at 60,000 fires since 2001 and found that the fastest-growing ones have more than doubled in frequency since 2001 and caused far more destruction that slower, larger blazes.
“Fires have gotten faster,” Balch said Wednesday. “The big culprit we’re suspecting is a warming climate that’s making it easier to burn fuels when conditions are just right.”
Summer fires are bigger usually, but they don’t burn nearly as fast. Winter fires “are much more destructive because they happen much more quickly” said U.S. Geological Survey fire scientist Jon Keeley.
AccuWeather estimated damage from the latest fires could reach $57 billion, with the private firm’s chief meteorologist, Jonathan Porter, saying “it may become the worst wildfire in modern California history based on the number of structures burned and economic loss.”
A firefighter battles the Eaton Fire Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025 in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Conditions are ideal
“It’s really just the perfect alignment of everything in the atmosphere to give you this pattern and strong wind,” said Tim Brown, director of the Western Regional Climate Center.
Wind speed and the speed of spreading flames are clearly linked.
“The impact increases exponentially as wind speed increases,” said fire scientist Mike Flannigan of Thompson Rivers University in Canada. If firefighters can get to the flames within 10 minutes or so, it’s spread can be contained, but “15 minutes, it’s too late and it’s gone. The horse has left the barn.”
There’s no sure link between Santa Ana winds — gusts from the east that come down the mountains, gain speed and hit the coast — to human-caused climate change, said Daniel Swain, climate scientist for the California Institute for Water Resources.
But a condition that led to those winds is a big plunge in the temperature of the jet stream — the river of air that moves weather systems across the globe — which helped bring cold air to the eastern two-thirds of the nation, said University of California Merced climate and fire scientist John Abatzoglou. Other scientists have preliminarily linked those jet stream plunges to climate change.
Santa Ana winds are happening later and later in the year, moving more from the drier fall to the wetter winter, Keeley said. Normally, that would reduce fire threats, but this isn’t a normal time.
Fire crews begin to clear a toppled tree in the aftermath of the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)
Dry fuel makes it worse
After two soaking winters, when atmospheric rivers dumped huge amounts of water on the region causing lots of plants to grow, a fast onset of drought dried them out, providing perfect tinder, according to Swain and Abatzoglou.
Swain says this weather whiplash is happening more often.
There is a clear link between climate change and the more frequent dry falls and winters that provide fuel for fires, Swain said.
These devastating fires couldn’t happen without the dry and hot conditions, nor would they be blazing without the extreme wind speed, Abatzoglou and others said.
Thick heavy smoke from wildfires passes over the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
It’s also a people problem
The human factor in this can’t be ignored, said Keeley.
“I think that we need to look at it from the perspective of global changes. And climate is just one global change. And certainly one of the other important global changes is population growth. And California has been growing at a phenomenal rate in the last 20 years,” Keeley said. “You add more people and that means you add more power lines and more potential for failure to occur.”
While the ignition sources for these fires have yet to be determined, Flannigan bets they’ll end up being power lines blown down by high winds. That’s what started California’s devastating fires in 2016 and 2017, leading to utility Pacific Gas & Electric declaring bankruptcy after facing $30 billion in lawsuits.
The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
The calendar seems wrong
An analysis of 423 California wildfires that have grown to at least 15 square miles (39 square kilometers) since 1984 shows only four of those burned during the winter. About two-thirds of those larger fires sparked in June, July or August.
Federal data shows just six wildfires have burned more than 2 square miles (5 square kilometers) in any January in California since 1984. Until the Palisades and Eaton fires this year, the largest had been the Viejas Fire, which burned 17.1 square miles (44.3 square kilometers) in 2001 in the mountains east of San Diego.
“Winter wildfires should be an oxymoron,” University of Colorado’s Balch said. “Well, because, you know, temperatures drop and we get precipitation. We’re supposed to get precipitation.”
Fire officials used to talk about fire seasons, said David Acuña, a battalion chief for Cal Fire: “Now we talk about fire years.”
https://apnews.com/article/fire-devasta ... fb22c8fcc5