Strong winds in California heighten fire risk in drought-stricken Los Angeles.

Just had to evacuate our rental properties... not looking good
Sorry to hear that. Hard to see some of your assets and income potentially go up in flames, let having your tenants potentially lose everything they own. Which fire are your properties near?

My cousin is sandwiched between the new Kenneth fire (5 miles south east of that) and the Palisades fire. He has already packed the car and confined the cat inside waiting for the potential bad news. I have a niece with a newborn first child living 7 miles south of the Palisades fire. I can't imagine what people are going through. It has to be horrific. I know my relatives and their families very stressed out and they don't even have to leave yet.

If your properties don't burn here is some information about medically dangerous smoke and ash fall out due to fires like this (research from the Boulder fire) and what to do.

Here is the research based article:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsestair.4c00258

Here is a "popular media" news article based on the above research article:

[EXTERNAL LINK] - Wildfire smoke's health risks can linger in homes that escape burning − as Colorado's Marshall Fire survivors discovered

And this one is advice to people on how to deal with the above smoke (and ash if relevant) damage to reduce the medical impact on them.

[EXTERNAL LINK] - How to mitigate post-fire smoke impacts in your home
 
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