blazes

This and other recent rainfall have done much to moisten the landscape and make it harder for blazes to start.

It wouldn’t be until February, well after the blazes had already devastated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, that the region saw enough rain to bring fire season to a close.

It follows a series of blazes at Carrbridge and Dava in the Cairngorms national park, which landowners described as the biggest in living memory.

However, there is a growing consensus that climate change has heightened wildfire risks, as evidenced by a growing number of catastrophic blazes California has suffered over the last decade.

His government banned construction on land affected by the blazes, and pledged harsher penalties for arsonists.