'When I was a kid, we would play in the snow on snow days. Now we take fire selfies on apocalypse days.'
SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—Californians faced another day of evacuations and blackouts Wednesday as some of the strongest winds of the year fueled a new blaze north of Los Angeles that threatened the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
Officials had warned that wind gusts, which reached 70 miles an hour and created loud howls as they knocked over benches and shook cars, would create some of the most dangerous conditions of the year for deadly blazes. As a preventive measure, power was cut off to more than a half-million households...
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