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LA County Fires - updated Google aerial views

Yikes

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Google recently updated their aerial views of the Altadena fire. You can click on the heart of Altadena here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7PCKEvzjpywmdMhc6
County block after block of devastation - -nothing but ash heaps, lone chimneys, and a few remaining trees.
The fire actually started in Eaton Canyon, several miles to the east, here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3bX7djBYkcAiMnBa6

Santa Ana winds typically blow from northeast to south/southwest, but on Jan. 6th they were whipping in many directions


Here's a WUI map overlain with recent results of field surveys. Most of the lost structures were in the "intermix" zone.

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Likewise, the Pacific Palisades area has been updated in Google Maps aerial View: https://maps.app.goo.gl/rjqmm1h7dakx8Vjg7

It is unsettling to toggle back-and forth between the "after" of these aerial views and the "before" street views, which still show everything as it was prior to the fire.
 
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Looks like street view is also being updated slowly. Both the shots below are of the same location. I don't see much yet that shows the true destruction, but a lot on the outskirts of where the fire hit.
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