Welcome to the News Hour. Unprecedented warnings about wind conditions have residents around Los Angeles on high alert again tonight, while firefighters work to control major blazes that have destroyed communities and taken at least 24 lives.

More than 40,000 people have applied for FEMA assistance already. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued an executive order

to remove red tape and speed up rebuilding efforts.

And Governor Gavin Newsom suspended state rules

to make it easier for students to attend school

in a different location because of the fires.

But as Stephanie Syve reports, for the moment,

it's hard for many residents to look beyond the next 24 hours.

Life-threatening and destructive and widespread winds are already here.

Even as firefighters continue to battle blazes in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades,

the weary residents of Los Angeles are bracing for another 24

hours of dangerous fire conditions. Strong Santa Ana's combined with extremely dry weather and vegetation

could shape another perfect storm. Fire officials say they're in position and ready for any fresh fires as well as flare-ups of

the palisades and eaten fires, which have been burning for a week. For this significant wind event,

we are taking an aggressive lean forward posture and the LFD has staffed all available resources

strategically placing fire patrols and engines

in the unimpacted high fire risk areas in the city. In Ventura County, some 60 miles northwest of

Los Angeles, a new blaze exploded overnight. The auto fire burned through this agricultural area

in the dry riverbed town of Oxnard.

The Ventura Fire Department said it managed to stop it in its tracks.

But nearby residents were prepared with go bags packed.

We've been monitoring the fires every day, viewing the Cal Fire map, wind speeds, wind direction, trying to assess

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