Firefighters battling Los Angeles wildfires face a tough task due to winds of up to 65mph and more powerful winds forecast for the day
LOS ANGELES - Another spate of Southern California wildfires roared to life on Thursday, destroying homes and forcing evacuations, as the region faced a second day of explosively fierce Santa Ana winds that have fanned flames, displacing thousands of residents.
Authorities ordered the evacuation of nearly 500 homes, displacing about 1,300 residents. No injuries were reported. The latest recurrence of Santa Ana winds, howling into the region through mountain passes from the desert, were so extraordinarily dry, powerful and prolonged that the National Weather Service created a new alert level, issuing an “extreme red flag warning” in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
Residents were being allowed to return to most of the 10,000 homes that had been ordered evacuated. About a dozen dwellings were lost in the 745-acre Getty fire and two firefighters were injured, but the museum came through unscathed.
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