$150 billion California wildfire damage estimates

Bill Weidel, a representative of the weather forecasting consulting company AccuWeather, said that the economic damage resulting from the raging wildfires in Southern California in the United States could reach between 135 and 150 billion dollars.

“AccuWeather has revised its initial estimates of damage and economic losses from the wildfires in Southern California, and now believes they will reach between $135 and $150 billion,” Weidel wrote on the social media platform “X,” according to the Russia Today news site.

It is noteworthy that the company itself had previously estimated the extent of the damage at about 52-57 billion dollars.

The company’s spokesman said that the company’s meteorologists expect stormy winds to continue and the risk of forest fires to break out in the region until next week.

California firefighters are battling at least five major wildfires that have so far killed at least five people, destroyed nearly 1,900 buildings and threatened famous landmarks.

The fires have burned nearly 28,000 acres of land, and the state administration has issued evacuation orders for 130,000 people. The fires have caused devastation in communities from the Pacific Coast to inland Pasadena, and hundreds of firefighters are helping, while the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says it is… Yesterday, Wednesday, 395 firefighters were deployed in 29 crews.

The disaster began Tuesday afternoon when a strong windstorm ignited a fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, quickly forcing thousands to flee. Satellite images showed the extent of the devastation caused by the Pacific Palisades fire, which burned more than 15,000 acres and left the coast in ruins. The length of the famous Malibu neighborhood burned black.

The death toll from forest fires in the Los Angeles area of ​​America has risen to 10 people.

The Los Angeles coroner’s office said in an update that the death toll from the massive fires had risen to 10, according to the British Sky News network.

Firefighters in California are continuing efforts to control a series of large fires in Los Angeles that have caused huge losses and destroyed at least 10,000 buildings from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena, and forced thousands to flee their homes.

The strong winds that were driving the flames and prompting chaotic evacuations have calmed somewhat, although meteorologists warned that the danger would continue until Friday.

Firefighters are battling fires that have spread across the vast region, including huge blazes in Pacific Palisades and Altadena that were still burning as of Thursday evening.

US President Joe Biden said that the fires currently sweeping the greater Los Angeles area are the most devastating in the history of California.

Biden continued: “These are the most devastating fires in the history of California,” adding: “360,000 people have been evacuated so far.”