The combination of wildfires and winds near 100 miles per hour is causing dangerous and frightening conditions in the Los Angeles area.
“It’s catastrophic,” said Steve Schwaid, former NBC Connecticut news director who now lives in Los Angeles. “You have a little bit of wind a little bit of fire and it starts moving. You get an 85 mile an hour gust of wind and it blows everywhere.”
Those powerful wind gusts are fueling three wildfires to the north, east, and west of LA County. Another fire, the Woodley fire, sparked Wednesday morning near Van Nuys west of the 405 Highway…