Basically the same thing could happen (wherever there are hills or mountains involved as happened in Montecito where 25 people died.
Here is two quotes:
A series of mudflows occurred in Southern California in early January 2018, particularly affecting areas northwest of Montecito in Santa Barbara County.
Jan 18, 2018 — Oom,
Pasta, and Loring were killed in the storm; Lydia is still missing. Aw
and Perm escaped the disaster because they happened to be working ...
end quotes.
So, the real danger here isn't going to be over when the wind dies down and the fires are put out (especially in a place like Pacific Palisades or up in Altadena because of small to larger mountains around these areas which if there is a rain fall of any significant proportions will bring mud and rocks down in fierce ways which will wipe out more homes of people who didn't lose them in these fires.
So, the danger isn't over for these fire areas (and below them) because rain has to go someplace and without any vegetation to hold back the soils and rocks it's all going to go somewhere downhill and if they now get significant rain all at once this will be a 2nd disaster almost as big as the first one in magnitude as mud and rocks start to move down hills where once there were bushes and trees still alive and there and not all burned away like now along with houses. All these people are going to be living somewhere else so I suppose at least they might be safe from experiencing this if their houses all burned down (all 10,000 of them so far).
Without vegetation to hold back the mud and rocks there are more disasters of mud and rocks and water flooding these areas too. So, erosion and mudslides likely are next if they get any significant rain in Los Angeles between now and May there.
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