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Armajani’s unusual earthwork joined in: Embracing a legal, bureaucratic form, he pointed to land as a decidedly social structure.

The report cited a delay in communicating evacuation orders, which resulted in spontaneous evacuations without structured traffic control, causing people to block routes to the fire, the report said.

“That fire burned deep within the ground, in roots and in structure, and remained active for several days,” Cooper said.

The Palisades fire charred 23,400 acres and leveled more than 6,800 structures, including many homes.

The immense Oakland Hills fire in 1991, which destroyed 2,500 structures, exploded after firefighters believed they contained an earlier six-acre fire the day before.