"Critical fire weather will last through Friday for portions of LA and Ventura counties, including major wildfire locations such as the Palisades Fire, the Eaton Fire and the Hurst Fire," the NWS says. "Gusty winds and very dry conditions will continue to fuel fire starts and existing fires. Please use extreme caution with any ignition source and stay alert to the forecast and follow instructions from local officials."
"The typical strengths of the winds are on the order of, say, 30 to 60 mph when they occur, a couple times a year," Ariel Cohen, chief meteorologist for the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard office, told NPR's Morning Edition. "Every once in a while we get a much stronger Santa Ana wind event like what we had over the past 24 to 36 hours, in which case we ended up with a widespread, life-threatening situation because of the extreme fire weather conditions."
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