Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

Folks, this, the LA fire situation, I don't think that we can say it's getting better.

Perhaps it's staying the same. It's growing. When you look at the map where all of the communities

that are affected by this, the Palisades fire community, it flared up overnight. It is still

spreading and they're expecting higher and higher wins.

And you see the areas of California.

The long-term health effects of this, just like myself and Professor Mike Geary,

were 9-11 first responders.

And many of those health effects didn't occur to years and years and years later.

So the long-term health effects to breathing in this smoke and the carcinogens and this toxic material is down the road, not immediately apparent.

So when they order evacuations, it's not just for imminent danger,

but that it's not safe to breathe the air there.

So when they do issue these evacuations,

people should take heed and absolutely get out of Dodge.

After more evacuations on Friday night, firefighters were curbing the spread of the Eton and Palisades blazes ahead of high desert winds that were expected to intensify this weekend.

Los Angeles firefighters were making modest progress in taming the region's two largest fires on Saturday

as they raced to suppress them out of high winds that are expected to intensify later in the day.

After a night of expanded evacuation orders and spreading flames that

continue to plunge in the area into what Lindsay Horvath, the Los Angeles County supervisor

called unimaginable terror and heartbreak, crews had contained 11% of the 22,660-acre palisade fire, and 15% of the 14,000-acre Eton fire near Alta Dina and Pasadena,

according to California fire. The two blazers, which together have killed at least 11 people,

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