The National Hurricane Centre in Miami warned that ‘continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding’ is expected in parts of the…
Crews worked to dig roads, buildings and care home residents out of the mud across a wide swathe of south-western US desert as the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years headed north
Hilary first slammed into Mexico’s arid Baja California Peninsula as a hurricane, causing one death and widespread flooding before becoming a tropical storm. “We were able to put the patients into the scoop. It’s not something that I’ve ever done in my 34 years as a firefighter, but disasters like this really cause us to have to look at those means of rescue that aren’t in the book and that we don’t do every day,” he said at a news conference.
The Hawaiian island of Maui is still reeling from a blaze that killed more than 100 people, making it the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century. Firefighters in Canada are also battling their country’s worst blaze season on record. The wet weather might stave off wildfires for a few weeks in Southern California and in parts of the Sierra Nevada, but widespread rain is not expected in the most fire-prone areas, climate scientist Daniel Swain, from the University of California, Los Angeles, said in an online briefing on Monday.
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