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In a matter of hours, the Mountain fire charged rapidly across the Santa Susana Mountains and into nearby foothill neighborhoods, forcing widespread evacuations and demanding intense firefights from crews showered in red-hot embers.

Experts still disagree over whether homes can be completely fireproofed in a wind-driven ember fire.

Contrary to popular belief, the most destructive force in most Southern California wildfires isn’t the flames — it’s the embers.

Would some of those players not here in Athens have been more minded to report had this been Tuchel's first game in charge as opposed to the dying embers of the Carsley interim regime?

However, he said it’s nothing compared to the extreme Santa Ana winds that drove the growth of this fire, pushing embers more than a mile ahead of the main blaze.