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Debris from the scorched homes near Malibu's Big Rock will end up in the ocean as well -- by wind and sea -- due to the proximity to the coastline, Synolakis said.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025
The Walsh House, featured in the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, emerged untouched, surrounded by scorched vegetation.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Last week, Simcha Graiman, a worker with Zaka, a volunteer Israeli rescue organization, scraped a scorched home in Kibbutz Holit for ashes.
—Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
Smoking heaps of rubble lay piled high next to the waterfront and gray smoke hovered over the leafless skeletons of scorched trees.
—Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025
The Walsh House, featured in the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, emerged untouched, surrounded by scorched vegetation.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Last week, Simcha Graiman, a worker with Zaka, a volunteer Israeli rescue organization, scraped a scorched home in Kibbutz Holit for ashes.
—Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
Smoking heaps of rubble lay piled high next to the waterfront and gray smoke hovered over the leafless skeletons of scorched trees.
—Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
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“Scorched.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scorched. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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