Good afternoon, 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.

We are still covering the California fires.

And one of the things that we all have to be concerned with,

and we hear it all the time, and us perhaps in the northeast and other parts of the country don't understand

this as well as the people that are from California. And that's the Santa Ana wins. And that is what

is the biggest enemy right now of firefighters. Firefighters that have to fight these winds.

And watch as the fire is flamed by the power of these

winds, spread by the power of these winds. And just an awesome power that these winds contain

and the power they have of a fire, both spreading the flames and the embers

that wind up on other houses. We've seen such bravery, such hard work by the firefighters,

the police, the emergency service workers. Just unbelievable. Residents of the Los Angeles area faced a third consecutive

day of strong wind warnings remained at risk for new fires on Wednesday. More than a week after

devastating blazers began tearing through Southern California. The most dangerous fire conditions that forecasters warned of, including gusts of at least

30 miles an hour, had not yet materialized by mid-morning.

On Tuesday, weaker than predicted winds allowed firefighters to make progress against the largest

blazers and tame or extinguish new, smaller ones.

No more homes or major structures were burning in either of the two largest blazes, the

palisades and the eaten fires. Though officials said embers could still linger unseen

under debris and underground. Those blazers

which have burned an area larger than San Francisco could take weeks to extinguish. The crisis

created by the fires which have killed at least 25 people and displaced more than 100,000

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