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Erin Burnett OutFront

CA Braces For Near-Hurricane-Force Wind, “Extreme Fire Danger”

Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN

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4.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Urgent warnings in southern California of explosive growing fires. Plus, federal investigators arrive on the ground to try and determine the cause of the fires.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On Front next, live from Southern California, where there are urgent warnings of what they are calling explosive growing fires near hurricane strength winds forecast in these coming hours.

0:12.4

Plus, searching for a cause, federal investigators just arriving on the ground, trying to determine now, trying to find what caused the deadly fires, including the Palisades fire where near where we are.

0:23.0

Was it arson? We're going to speak to an investigator involved.

0:26.4

And I'm going to talk to the owner of a bakery in Pasadena.

0:29.1

Now feeding first responders and neighbors who have lost homes, even though she can no longer live in her own house.

0:35.1

I can't make payroll for the first time ever. Let's go

0:38.9

out front. And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett tonight live from Malibu, California. And out front

0:47.8

tonight, the breaking news, brace for what they are saying will be explosive fire growth. That is the

0:53.9

warning here tonight, as the

0:55.2

winds are now just starting to pick back up, and we are looking at near hurricane force wind

1:00.4

gusts in the next few hours over this evening. That is, of course, extremely concerning, because

1:05.7

wind like that, any kind of wind, but certainly wind like that, could erase progress that firefighters have made

1:12.6

and trying to knock down the raging flames and fires that have devastated Los Angeles.

1:17.6

Killing at least 24, a number the governor of California says will go up significantly.

1:21.6

Already more than 12,000 structures are gone.

1:24.6

40,000 acres burned through, including what is behind me. One of the most

1:30.0

beautiful places to live in America, this is all that exists of a home that overlooked the Pacific

1:34.5

Coast Highway right here in Malibu. And I'll show you what this place looked like one week ago.

1:39.6

One week ago, if you were standing here, and I never would have been standing here because you

1:42.8

don't stand in Malibu, California for a news show until you look at the other side of the screen. And that is what's

1:49.8

happened, this devastation, all that is here now, part of a door, wall, a fireplace. Everything else is

1:55.9

gone. Now this hour, nearly 100,000 people still under evacuation orders as two major fires here are still burning.

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