Last Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a rare “particularly dangerous situation” (PDS) red flag warning to Los Angeles and Ventura counties about incoming strong winds. “This is about as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather,” the warning for Tuesday through Thursday said.
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00:00Severe fire weather conditions will continue through Wednesday. Please be
00:06assured that all fire departments and all law enforcement agencies in the area
00:13will be prepared. The anticipated winds combined with low humidities and low
00:20fuel moistures will keep the fire threat in all of Los Angeles County critical.
00:27We're absolutely better prepared for this coming PDS, the severe fire weather
00:35event. As we've mentioned the National Weather Service is predicting close to
00:39hurricane force level winds and so we're making urgent preparations. Evacuations
00:46we have approximately, and this is some good news because it's dropped, we have
00:51over 92,000 people who are under evacuation orders and approximately
00:5689,000 people who are under evacuation warnings. For the Altadena area we are
01:02in the third day of grid searching. It is a very grim task and we unfortunately
01:09every day we're doing this we're running across the remains of individual
01:15community members. People are saying I just want to go look at my house and I
01:20want to see what's left. We know that but we have people literally looking for the
01:24remains of your neighbors. Please be patient with us.