SoCal is fucked: 80mph winds, 5% humidity, temps near 100, and desert dry brush that has had only one rainy day in two years. If we survive this without a massive fire somewhere we'll only be lucky.

Late Add: there are now five seventeen fires burning. One is getting all the attention. Why? Because it's where all the multimillionaires, the ones that block entrance to a public beach, live in splendor in three million dollar homes in an area that insurance rates as 100% sure to have a fire each five years. So? So these pricks got the legislature to force insurance fire coverage for them under an "assigned risk" program, a deal in which the rest of us pay sky high rates so the multi millionaires will have "coverage," coverage they shouldn't have and do not deserve.

How these fires spread so fast. All plants with stems have "segments" marked by little blips circling the stem every six to eight inches or so. These "blips" seal the stem so that air is trapped inside each segment. When a fire starts these stem segments heat which causes the air inside these tinder dry stems to expand rapidly; they literally explode (that is the crackling you hear around these fires), and the explosions are burning parts of dry plants. These burning stem "parts" go with the wind and many of them land on other bushes. You have literally millions of these little stem explosions every minute---more or less--- depending on the size of the fire.