Fire conditions near LA prompt the National Weather Service to issue its first-ever extreme red flag

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Source: CNN

Fire conditions near LA prompt the National Weather Service to issue its first-ever extreme red flag warning

By Joe Sutton, Hollie Silverman and Jason Hanna, CNN
Updated 2247 GMT (0647 HKT) October 29, 2019

(CNN) — It's one word the National Weather Service in Los Angeles doesn't want Southern California residents to overlook -- extreme.

As in, this isn't just another red flag warning -- meaning winds, temperatures and humidity are ripe for fire danger. It's an extreme red flag warning.

The weather service in using the term for the first time to convey that the fire conditions expected this week "have not been seen in recent memory."

Hurricane-force winds -- the kinds that knock down power lines and trees -- are expected to blow across bone-dry vegetation on Wednesday, and the weather service is warning there is a danger of very rapid fire spread.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/29/us/california-fires-tuesday/index.html

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1. They will have to revise the warning system.

Longer summers, which are dry, and late starts to the normal rainy season are a result of Climate Change. The cost to put all the electrical wires underground is $4 million a mile (heard on MSNBC earlier).