With a new round of storms bearing down on Southern California, public works crews are racing the clock to clear tons of debris left behind by the heavy rainfall earlier this week.
The first two years after a fire is when the worry is highest. But the flash flood risk often remains for much longer.
Teams from L.A. County Public Works are hurrying to clear tree trunks and sediment from debris basins before the next storm. A cubic yard is the size of a washing machine, so their goal is to move the equivalent of 7,000 washing machines of debris. Crews use backhoes and bulldozers to fill up dump trucks, which drive the mud through winding neighborhood streets to a sediment placement area a few miles away.
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