Natalie Kitroff

And can you take us through kind of what it looks like when people start to flee that area?

And can you take us through kind of what it looks like when people start to flee that area?

That is just so surreal, and it really gives you a sense of how trapped everyone in the path of this fire felt. I mean, what do we know about the scale of the damage at this point?

That is just so surreal, and it really gives you a sense of how trapped everyone in the path of this fire felt. I mean, what do we know about the scale of the damage at this point?

Okay, so now there are multiple fires encroaching on Los Angeles. What does that feel like?

Okay, so now there are multiple fires encroaching on Los Angeles. What does that feel like?

It honestly sounds incredibly scary. Karina, what can you tell us about the efforts to fight these fires so far?

It honestly sounds incredibly scary. Karina, what can you tell us about the efforts to fight these fires so far?

Karina, you kind of mentioned that people in L.A. and in some of these areas are used to the idea of having wildfires in the area. Climate change has turned it into a kind of a hotbed for these kinds of blazes year after year. And yet it seems like the scale of this fire and the location means that people aren't just near a wildfire. They are in a wildfire and an enormous one. And

Karina, you kind of mentioned that people in L.A. and in some of these areas are used to the idea of having wildfires in the area. Climate change has turned it into a kind of a hotbed for these kinds of blazes year after year. And yet it seems like the scale of this fire and the location means that people aren't just near a wildfire. They are in a wildfire and an enormous one. And

I wonder if that's going to change how people who live in these communities see their home.

I wonder if that's going to change how people who live in these communities see their home.

This fire, it sounds like, was just big enough and violent enough, fast enough to make everyone in L.A. feel like they were living in one place that is threatened by the same forces.

This fire, it sounds like, was just big enough and violent enough, fast enough to make everyone in L.A. feel like they were living in one place that is threatened by the same forces.

Karina, thank you.

Karina, thank you.

After the break, Time's meteorologist Judson Jones on how these fires started and why they're so hard to control.

After the break, Time's meteorologist Judson Jones on how these fires started and why they're so hard to control.

Judson, we just heard from our colleague Karina, who's on the ground in L.A. and who described the devastation caused by these fires encircling Los Angeles. You're our staff meteorologist. So we want to ask you to help us understand how these fires started and why they've spread so quickly.

Judson, we just heard from our colleague Karina, who's on the ground in L.A. and who described the devastation caused by these fires encircling Los Angeles. You're our staff meteorologist. So we want to ask you to help us understand how these fires started and why they've spread so quickly.