Live updates: Southern California fires »Along Ojai Avenue, the Christmas decorations were up, but the place was a ghost town. To a Southern Californian, there are fewer word combinations more frightening than “Santa Ana winds” and “high fire risk.”This week, we saw why. But people had some warning before the Santa Ana winds blew sheets of fire across the landscape. But I have never met anyone who likes the Santa Ana winds. “The violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 08, 2017 12:00 UTC