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The destructive wildfire had stripped the slopes of the nearby Santa Monica Mountains and now rain could send a tremendous amount of sediment flowing into Topanga Lagoon, a death trap for fish.

Given the proximity of so many homes to wildlands, and given the drought and hurricane-force winds, many of us are living in a sprawling death trap.

A heavy storm following a blaze can sweep massive amounts of sediment and charred material from the denuded hillsides into the water they inhabit — a death trap for creatures that can’t flee.

PCH felt like Main Street, not the driving death trap it would become.

"As if the relentless bombing and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza were not enough, the one sanctuary where Palestinians should have felt safe in fact became a death trap," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Tuesday.