‘Hard to stay optimistic’

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The wildfires remain unpredictable and for two of them there has been “zero containment,” which makes it hard for local residents “to stay optimistic,” Los Angeles resident Vince Vicari says.   #LosAngeles #LosAngelesWildfires

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00:00Obviously, a lot of words are being used, a lot of cliches are being used to describe

00:04what we're seeing on our screens, and I mean, it really does look, and I'm not the first

00:08person to say this, but it looks apocalyptic, other people saying it sounds like something

00:12out of a film.

00:13I mean, what's your way of describing what you've seen these last 24, 48 hours?

00:19What I'm seeing is grim.

00:23It's hard to stay optimistic with, you see all these smoke and fires around you.

00:28Even if folks aren't in ground zero at these fires, it is affecting the entire L.A. County

00:33region.

00:34It's grim, it's unpredictable, it's chaotic, and there's an uncertainty about what the

00:41winds will do next and how these fires will get under control and when, because as of

00:45right now, a whole day later, there's still zero containment for these fires, and they

00:51burned collectively over 30,000 acres.

00:54So the unpredictability is one of the biggest things coming to my mind, which is why I didn't

00:59want to wait until they said it's an evacuation order.

01:02I said, I'm getting out of here.

01:04My stuff is packed.

01:05I don't want to wait until however many hundreds of thousands of other people are trying to

01:09also leave the county at the same time.

01:11I want to get out now before it's too late and I get stuck in anything and regret not

01:16leaving sooner.

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