This piece was originally published in Vox and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Sustained powerful winds reaching nearly 100 miles per hour are driving fast-moving wildfires near Los Angeles, spewing smoke, destroying homes, closing roads, and forcing thousands of people to evacuate. The Palisades Fire along the coast near the Santa Monica mountains has burned more than 17,000 acres as of Thursday morning. The Eaton fire near Pasadena has now torched at least 10,000 acres. The blazes have killed at least five people and destroyed more…
