And Outfront, next live from Altadena, California, already devastated right now at the center of new warnings tonight for those winds, fears of new fires starting right here.

This, as I meet a firefighter, who lost his own home trying to desperately save others.

In the rubble of his home today, though, a priceless

discovery and the search for a cause. CNN spotting investigators coming several hiking trails

where one of the fires started. An investigation on the ground is out front tonight. And then a

professional soccer player for L.A. Her childhood home burned to the ground days before her wedding. So did she go

ahead with it? She's my guest. Let's go out front. And good evening. I'm Erin Burnett, live from

Altadena, California tonight. And out front tonight, we do have the breaking news, these new

warnings. We are now in the middle of an extremely

dangerous situation here in southern california powerful wind gusts are now whipping across the area

the major fear right now is that the winds will fuel even more destructive fires by carrying

embers to areas like this on the edge of altadena that have not been burned and you see how green and lush

and all of the dry vegetation also through this area critically dry it is in these hills behind me

where the Eaton fire started they are concerned about new sparks for so much of this area to go up

in flames and in these coming hours with wind gusts. That is the concern coming down the same Gabriel Mountains.

And this is why, as you can see, we're in a part of town that is under an evacuation order.

People, this is, you know, you come through National Guard blocked.

And all day here there's been fire crews coming through here nonstop.

They've been, you know, really scrambling to gain the upper hand and build up this firewall that they're trying to build up ahead of these winds that they anticipate through the night hours tonight.

And as we drove around today, we saw this, you know, the pink fire retardant.

We've been showing you drops of that, coding homes, cars, yards, but up in the mountains

today, we literally saw a line, almost a line of defense over in the mountains behind me that they've

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