Heavy rains in the West American are causing Earth landslides that have blocked the roads of Los Angelesin the areas burned by the forest fires last month, causing the bare slopes to collapse.
Some parts of the Californian capital have been flooded and sown with debris and fire remains. The Pacific Coast Highway, a road where there were multimillion -dollar properties that were razed by the January fires, is closed, with a thick mud blocking the road. The Torrente de Agua also dragged a vehicle from the Los Angeles Fire Department to the Ocean; The authorities hope to rescue him in the next few hours.
The fire department official who was driving the SUV at that time escaped with minor wounds, a spokesman said. In Hollywood Hillswhere movie stars and working -class people live, a great mud aviation left about 20 centimeters of debris on a main road.
And in Altadena, where thousands of buildings were destroyed by the fierce fires last month, several vehicles were stranded between the rubble that reached the streets. The damage occurred despite the wide preparations of the local authorities, who had placed sand bags and concrete barriers in places that were thought to be at risk by the strongest storm of the winter of winter California.
Although the area urgently needed the rain (until February there had been no significant rainfall for eight months), it was always going to be a problem in the places affected by mortal fires.
The slopes where anchor vegetation has not been burned cannot absorb water quickly. The heat of fires also has the effect of cooking and hardening the ground, which means that the rain is simply washed.
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