Raging Los Angeles Fires Kill 2, Injure Scores as Homes Burn

I’m getting hit with palm leaves on fire … It’s terrifying. It feels like a horror movie. I’m screaming and crying walking down the street.”

Evacuees described harrowing escapes, including one woman who recounted to ABC7 how she abandoned her vehicle and fled with her cat in her arms

Angelenos should be advised that the windstorm is expected to worsen through the morning and to heed local warnings, stay vigilant and stay safe,

she said

Will.i.amtime Palisades resident

It is crazy, it's everywhere, in all the nooks and crannies of the Palisades. One home's safe, the other one's up in flames."

Will Adams, another resident, said

People were getting out of the cars with their dogs and babies and bags, they were crying and screaming,

continued Trainor

We looked across and the fire had jumped from one side of the road to the other side of the road,

she told the Associated Press, which also reported roofs, walls and chimneys of houses on fire

Los Angeles is currently experiencing an extreme fire weather condition with red flag alert,

the city's fire chief Kristin Crowley said during a press briefing

We really haven't seen a season as dry as this one follow a season as wet as the previous one,

he added