On January 7th, 2025, the giant California fire started. California's giant wildfire season is during dry/high temperatures, but this time, this wildfire is one of the worst ones some people have seen, and this one is not in summer/fall — this is during the winter.

Because of the high winds and crispy dry land in California, fires can easily spread, and even though a lot of people have heard or experienced a wildfire before this one, maybe if you have been in America for the last three years or longer, you have heard and seen effects of Canada wildfires, but this time it's direct, and this California wildfire is practically as bad as Canada's.

Thousands and thousands of other structures were either burned, demolished by wind, or abandoned in the fire. Even though it's still partially going, it's contained, so technically it's kind of safe now, but it definitely wasn't just a few weeks ago, because they had reported 13-24 people found dead because of the giant fire. About 180,000 people were told to leave their homes in California in areas that had more fire than others. The California fire department has been working nonstop to stop the fire, and even other big fire departments have chipped in their part, but not even all of them together could have stopped the fire immediately at first glance — but they were actually killing the fire very quickly for the giant size of California.

The places that had the greatest fires were Santa Monica and Malibu. The California fire will probably not start back up, and instead keep shrinking down until it's the size of a flame on a match, which is probably soon.