Millions of people in California face at least two more days of dry, hot winds that have fanned fires across Los Angeles County and sent residents fleeing for their lives.
Hurricane-force wind gusts of as much as 86 miles (138 kilometers) per hour have torn through the region, pushing flames through high-priced neighborhoods and hampering efforts of more than 1,400 firefighters who have flocked to blunt the blaze.
“We have a couple of days of this to go,” said Peter Mullinax, a forecaster at the U.S. Weather Prediction Center. “There just isn’t much of an