NPR News: 01-13-2025 6PM EST
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
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| 0:24.2 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Firefighters are working to contain two |
| 0:31.3 | major wildfires in Los Angeles that have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and |
| 0:36.2 | acres of land as the Santa Ana winds are |
| 0:38.8 | predicted to return soon. The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning with wind gusts |
| 0:44.1 | up to 70 miles an hour forecast through Wednesday. At least 24 people have died in the fires |
| 0:49.4 | and officials expect that number to rise. Search crews are out in what's left of the neighborhoods with |
| 0:54.7 | cadaver dogs looking for victims. And Cal Fire Battalion Chief David Acuna says he knows people |
| 1:00.8 | want to get in to see if their homes survived and possibly retrieve personal items, but he says |
| 1:06.5 | it's not safe without power lines that could still be live and... |
| 1:10.8 | We have open gas lines. We do not know if they're secured or not. There are structures |
| 1:15.2 | where half of the building is standing, which means it could collapse at any moment. And |
| 1:19.7 | overall, there's toxic ash out there made from the petroleum products in all of our homes |
| 1:25.6 | that is out there not safe for families to be out of. |
| 1:30.0 | Cal Fire's David Acuna speaking there to CNN. |
| 1:33.4 | Meanwhile, the fire's effects are far reaching with untold consequences for the entertainment industry. |
| 1:39.6 | In the near term, Hollywood's awards season is on hold. |
| 1:43.4 | And Pierce Mandalay-Dalbarco has more. The announcements for this |
| 1:46.7 | year's Academy Awards nominations were supposed to happen this Friday. Now actors, directors, |
| 1:52.2 | cinematographers, and many others will have to wait until January 23rd to find out if they're |
| 1:57.2 | on the short list for an Oscar. The Academy has extended the nomination's voting |
| 2:01.7 | period. The Wildfires prompted productions of TV shows and films to pause, but so far the show |
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