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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._ --- Jan 13, 2025 9:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Dangerous Winds Return to Los Angeles Area, But Officials Keep New Fires Under Control So Far](/video/djKwlnSY/) ### Dangerous Winds Return to Los Angeles Area, But Officials Keep New Fires Under Control So Far [Firefighters Battle Devastating Los Angeles Wildfires as Winds Calm Somewhat](/video/qghFE5Sl/) ### Firefighters Battle Devastating Los Angeles Wildfires as Winds Calm Somewhat [Thousands Flee as Los Angeles Firefighters Battle Multiple Blazes Exacerbated by Strong Winds](/video/LyEaWiGF/) ### Thousands Flee as Los Angeles Firefighters Battle Multiple Blazes Exacerbated by Strong Winds --- ## Transcript Severe fire weather conditions will continue through Wednesday. Please be assured that all fire departments and all law enforcement agencies in the area will be prepared. The anticipated winds combined with low humidities and low fuel moistures will keep the fire threat in all of Los Angeles County critical. We're absolutely better prepared. For this coming PDS, the severe fire weather event. As we've mentioned, the National Weather Service is predicting close to hurricane force level winds, and so we're making urgent preparations. Evacuations, we have approximately, and this is some good news because it's dropped. We have over 92,000 people who are under evacuation orders and approximately 89,000 people who are under evacuation warnings. For the Al tadina area, we are in the third day of grid searching. It is a very grim task, and we, unfortunately, every day we're doing this, we're running across the remains of individual community members. People are saying, I just want to go look at my house and I want to see what's left. We know that. 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