Powerful winds, dense chaparral and a loose wire on a utility pole: That was the lethal combination that ignited more than 96,000 acres north of Los Angeles in November 2018. The Woolsey Fire destroyed 1,500 structures and killed three people as it spread across Thousand Oaks, Calabasas and Malibu, burning over the Santa Monica Mountains all the way to the Pacific’s edge.
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