The next 48 hours are now crucial for those fighting California's wildfires. Ferocious, hot, Santa Ana winds are due to return and, this time, firefighters want to get ahead of it. At West Ridge Trailhead, where fire crews from Orange County are hard at work damping down already burnt ground, Brian Stewart of the Orange County Fire Department says so far they have found "several little hotspots [where] we are basically trying to turn dirt into mud to make sure it can't reignite.".
Fires latest - at least 24 people killed. The fear is the embers buried below the surface could come to life in the right conditions. Overhead, fire retardant gushes down from a helicopter - the aim is to create a sodden fire break. Many of those here have been fighting the flames now for almost a week.
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He and his team had battled the blaze for 72 hours and the footage they share with us is terrifying. "That was a little intense," he says, "but the conditions were intense, there was a lot of wind, there was a lot of fire, a lot of heat and there wasn't enough resources to manage it so we weren't going to leave.".
