Wildfire spread in LA unpredictable

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Shifting winds and embers igniting wildfires far away making the situation unpredictable, Los Angeles resident Vince Vicari says.   #LosAngeles #LosAngelesWildfires

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00:00I mean it sounds Vince from what you're saying like you're acting very much on your own initiative.

00:04Aren't you getting directive or instructions or information cascading down from the authorities

00:10there in California? Yes no we are getting a directive but what's happening is the the wind

00:15shifts the Santa Ana winds have been so strong and turbulent and unpredictable that they'll just

00:21shift without a moment's notice and one of the things that's happened is they've reported that

00:26embers from a wildfire have traveled over two miles and then just settled somewhere on the

00:31ground and started a wildfire over there and so because of that unpredictability it felt like

00:36things were just kind of closing in on the San Fernando Valley and because there's over nine

00:41million people in L.A. County I was concerned that if and when it's my time to go I didn't

00:45want to wait until they said go because of all the traffic and gridlock because you got to imagine

00:49also traffic lights are out power is out so beyond these fires in L.A. County there's a lot of

00:55instability in terms of electricity on the grid.

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