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david ulin is a sho sato professor of english at the university of southern california.ten extensively about los angeles, its history, environment and culture, and he told me more about the neighbourhoods and people who have been affected by these fires. it's impacted residential neighbourhoods. it's impacted neighbourhoods that are in hills. the eaton fire in pasadena crept up through a canyon. the palisades fire also going through other canyons. and now continuing to move into other canyons. and those are the most susceptible areas of the los angeles basin to wildfire, because they're fairly rural, they're fairly compact. they're densely forested in certain ways. and when you have a kind of situation that we have now where we had a lot of rain last year, which led to a lot of growth of vegetation, but there has been very little rain — almost none — this fall and winter, that vegetation dries, and with the santa ana winds coming through the canyons, like the winds come through the canyons and shoot through and build speed and momentum — it's a circumstance that's just r