On Sunday, temperatures hit triple digits in several valley and inland area cities, including 106 degrees in Pasadena and Lancaster, sending residents to air-conditioned shops and movie theaters as fire officials kept a wary eye on the forecast, worried that dry, gusty winds would make already-ripe fire conditions more dangerous.
It was ripe with fire about how players have let agents take over their careers and their lives.
But the original study said that heavy logging in earlier years had made forests ripe for fires by leaving behind more flammable brush and small trees.
A confluence of high winds, temperatures in the 80s and dry air made conditions ripe for fires on Thursday, and the winds kept water-hauling aircraft from attacking the flames that day, officials in both states said.
"You want ripe fruit, hot fire," he said.
But scientists and environmental advocates said today that dry conditions in forests adjacent to the storage site made the forests ripe for another fire, and a potentially more dangerous situation because of the increasing quantity of stored waste.
Hotter, drier temperatures create conditions ripe for large fires, which have become more common in the western USA over the past four decades.
If anything, heavy logging from earlier years may have contributed more to the conditions that have made Western forests ripe for big fires, because more flammable small trees and heavy brush are often left in the forest after the larger stands of timber have been taken out, said the report, by the Congressional Research Service, which analyzes policy for Congress.
Miller said Southern California's dry climate, deep drought and Mediterranean ecosystem make it ripe for ongoing fires.
The demonstrators threw stones, cabbages and ripe melons, and set fire to cars, while about 200 soldiers and police in riot gear fired tear gas and water cannon.
Now, conditions are ripe for a large fire and could lead to bigger changes in the ecosystem, affecting moose, bear, salmon and other creatures that have made the peninsula, just a few hours' drive from Anchorage, a tourist mecca.
