Emergency Management Agency says the agency has already deployed an assistance team. 0ur Correspondent Peter Bowes is in la with the latest. We expect it to make landfall in the next few hours in a very remotely populated part of barger california in mexico. Tijuana, the border city in mexico. Baja california. Concerns it could cause some serious damage there. Before moving north into california as a Tropical Storm, and that is the unusual part of this, a hurricane come Tropical Storm would get to california. And its expected to continue moving north as opposed to west, which is what a hurricane would generally do and then dissipate over the ocean. So the likely consequences are going to be extremely heavy rain in california, some of the neighbouring states as well. To put that in perspective, palm springs, the desert resort, searing temperatures, a0 degrees plus, this time of year very dry, is expected to get maybe ten or 12 centimetres of rain over the next 12 hours. We are just not
complaints over two lightning strike fires from last month, several weeks ago, that way in a remote area. they didn t have the resources to tackle them. of course the heatwave came and they exploded in size and forced evacuations there, and earned many homes in that community. not only him, but others have said, look, we need more resources. but they are really stretched thin, only so many firefighters. we do have crews from other countries, from australia, mexico and some other countries, here as well. as well as out of province firefighters. but it hasn t just been british columbia, there are other areas in canada. it s been a really catastrophic year for firefighters.- catastrophic year for firefighters. catastrophic year for firefiuhters. , ., , ., firefighters. just to put it on perspeetive. firefighters. just to put it on perspective, i ve firefighters. just to put it on perspective, i ve been - firefighters. just to put it on l perspective, i ve been looking at this graph fr
emergency management agency says the agency has already deployed an assistance team. 0ur correspondent peter bowes is in la with the latest. we expect it to make landfall in the next few hours in a very remotely populated part of barger california in mexico. tijuana, the border city in mexico. baja california. concerns it could cause some serious damage there. before moving north into california as a tropical storm, and that is the unusual part of this, a hurricane come tropical storm would get to california. and it s expected to continue moving north as opposed to west, which is what a hurricane would generally do and then dissipate over the ocean. so the likely consequences are going to be extremely heavy