The weather events made the wildfire spread inevitable, as the incoming winds are extremely dry, wildfire scientist and fire ecologist Dr. Chad Hanson says.
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00:00And for someone like you, who's been studying forest ecosystems,
00:05who's been studying these types of fires for many years,
00:09is there and was there a sense of inevitability about all of this?
00:13Yes and no.
00:15There's an inevitability about it in terms of the weather events.
00:20The Santa Ana winds are an intrinsic meteorological phenomenon in Southern California.
00:27They typically happen in the fall or early winter.
00:30And they're very, very intense winds, extremely dry,
00:35coming off the high desert, off the Mojave Desert,
00:38over the mountains and the winds roaring down those mountain slopes
00:44at hurricane speeds toward the Pacific Ocean.
00:47In those conditions, and when the relative humidity in the air is in the single digits,
00:54if you have an ignition, you are going to have very significant fires.
00:58And so, you know, these are fundamentally weather and climate events.
01:01And climate change is certainly an influence and is exacerbating things.