"What amounted to a flaming hurricane erased all of the presumed safety advantages of fighting a fire in a well-equipped city. The small air force of nearby tanker planes and helicopters was grounded. Powerful streams of water from a veritable traffic jam of firetrucks were snatched by the wind and carried away as mist. And with so much sudden demand on the city's water system, hydrants quickly ran dry."
"I never thought we'd have to evacuate, because we're so far away from the mountains... It’s just nuts. We're, like, 100 feet from the Pacific Ocean."
"Fires under those conditions are essentially unfightable. The best you can hope to do is get people out of the way," said UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.
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