The National Weather Service (NWS) has reinstated the "Particularly Dangerous Situation" red flag warnings for Southern California on Wednesday.
The most serious red flag fire weather warning has been issued by the NWS for swaths of L.A. and Ventura counties starting before dawn Tuesday.
As firefighters struggle to gain control of massive and deadly wildfires that are raging across parts of the Los Angeles area, the region is once again bracing for the potential of new fires and for current ones to intensify as a new storm system heads for the state.
The latest red flag warning includes the Inland Empire and Orange County, as well as the already ravaged Los Angeles area.
Another powerful windstorm is forecast to hit Southern California before firefighters are able to fully contain two deadly and destructive wildfires. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, Santa Ana winds will gust up to 70 mph and create a Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) in the fire-ravaged region,
The National Weather Service says the LA fire risk ... Cal Fire now ranks the Eaton blaze as the most destructive in Southern California history. It says the Palisades fire is the second.
The particularly dangerous situation alert is relatively new to Southern California but has been issued before the recent wildfires that have caused devastation across LA County.