Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cup, real crime stories. I'm your host,

retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

The fires in California, the wildfires in Los Angeles, as they've been named,

they do not seem to be subsiding.

As the winds died down, the firemen and the aircraft can fight these fires.

However, as much as the sand and a winds will die down, days later they will pick back up

and thus flaming the fires up again.

Major fires driven by fierce winds of scorched parts of the Los Angeles area for about 12 days.

At least 27 people have died and thousands of buildings have been burned.

The two largest fires are still not contained, but the high winds that help fuel their rapid

expansion have calmed in recent days. A fire's containment is an indication of its potential for growth, not how much it's

been extinguished. Despite calm weather going into the weekend, the dry conditions have continued

to present the challenge for firefighting efforts. Nearly 100,000 people living near the

Palisades and Eaton fires remained under evacuation orders or warnings as of Saturday morning.

So when officials say that a fire is contained, what does that mean?

And this is according to the New York Times research.

Containment measures a fire's potential for growth,

not how much of it has been extinguished.

While with the Los Angeles area in the crosshairs of at least five devastating wildfires,

figures on how many acres have burned and how much of fire is contained are often highlighted

in alerts to residents and statements by public officials.

Containment basically measures the fire's potential for growth,

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