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Today is Thursday, January the 9th. And Cecil, L.A. is on fire today.

Did you have that in your bingo card?

Wow, yeah.

It was really devastating out there.

It's terrible.

Those winds just ripped through and like so many different places got burned out there.

It was really just a drone footage was awful to look at.

Not even remotely contained.

Like I was reading a thing today.

I've got a good friend of mine out in California.

And when this whole thing started, I reached out to him.

Now, he's in the inland empire, so he's pretty far from L.A.

But they get a lot of fires where he's at.

And he sent me like a thing of like the newscaster.

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