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They do need the rain,
said Brian Hurley, a senior branch forecaster at the US Weather Prediction Center
Damaging winds could blow down trees and power lines. Power outages are possible. Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles."
NWS San Diego in a high wind warning
We’re still expecting some dry humidity and then gusts of winds possible up to 60 mph,
Ortiz said
We do have a plan in place … to evacuate the rest of the inmates on the entire facility if we absolutely had to,
Luna said Wednesday, without elaborating
I’m speechless to see all the houses burnt, and I can’t believe that Azul the bus — that’s what we named it — survived,
the van’s owner, Megan Krystle Weinraub, told CNN’s Erin BurnettThe situation that we’re in today is very different from the situation we were in 16 days ago,
the Los Angeles county fire chief, Anthony Marrone, said on Wednesday evening
It’s been stressful with those other fires, but now that this one is close to home it’s just super stressful,
she saidIt's more sparsely populated. However, out here, we are dealing with high winds, which we also saw with the other fires, along with ... a very receptive fuel bed and steep topography again,
he said as firefighters battled the fire into the night
We’re getting the winds, we’re getting the low humidities, and this brush hasn’t seen any moisture in so long,
he saidThere are helicopters. That’s the good news. The bad news is it is going to get windy enough later that they may not be able to fly in the moments when it gets closest to communities,
he saidThis fire had a robust response today, and as you can see behind us, the responders are doing great work to try to contain this fire
Joe Tyler, director of Cal Fire, said
The situation remains dynamic, and the fire remains a difficult fire to contain, although we are getting the upper hand,
he told an evening press conference
I don't think we should give California anything until they let water flow down into their system" from the north of the state
Trump said in an interview on Fox News aired Wednesday evening
This is to prevent additional damage to areas already ravaged by fire and also to protect our watershed, beaches and ocean from toxic runoff,
the mayor said
I'm just praying that our house doesn't burn down,
one man told broadcaster KTLA as he packed his car
Certainly, we are not out of the woods yet,
Tyler added
We’ve seen the devastation caused by people failing to follow those orders in the Palisades and Eaton fires,
Jensen said
I don’t want to see that here in our community as well. If you’ve been issued an evacuation order, please get out,
he saidOther people are hosing down their houses, too. I hope there's a house here to return to,
She said ... as cop cars raced through the streets and flames ripped through trees on a distant hillside
That one's gonna go nuclear. It's big,
Jacob Weigler, a wildfire expert, told the New York Post ... about the Hughes blaze