"We're still in the stronger wind period," said Mike Wofford, a meteorologist at National Weather Service, noting that wind gusts Wednesday morning reached 75 mph in the La Cañada Flintridge area and 65 mph in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains.
Wofford noted that the winds are likely to amp up again Wednesday evening, bringing up to 50-mph gusts. But he said winds of that speed are part of a more typical Santa Ana pattern.
In Pacific Palisades, the Palisades fire had charred more than 5,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, burning down to Pacific Coast Highway where it engulfed homes along the iconic stretch.
More than a thousand homes, businesses and other buildings have burned and at least two people are dead in wildfires burning across L.A. County.
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