Southern California wildfire destroys 132 structures as officials look for fierce winds to subside

It’s tough, it’s really tough to know how to process the emotions,

he told KNBC-TV on Thursday

Neither one of us has been able to cry yet,

he said

We see it over and over and over: People have the best intentions to stay and defend their home right up until the time the fire hits their home,

Ventura County Fire Chief Dustin Gardner said

When I looked out the window it looked like little campfires that were sparking up,

Snyder told CNN, adding

I could tell you that there could be a million things that start a fire,

Johnson said

I run in the house, and I’m banging on the door, and they did not hear me. They were knocked out,

Morin told CNN

Get the dog. Get out of here. You don’t have time, just get out

she recalled telling them

It’s like trying to put out a blowtorch with a squirt gun,

said McHale of the fire, which started in a hillside canyon on Wednesday and tore west, driven by Santa Ana winds

I urge everyone to stay out of the areas that are impacted. The fire is still very dangerous,

he said

Around 9 a.m. she called me and there was smoke coming up over the back of our property pretty fast. I head home and halfway home she said she could see flames, we have a back pasture. It had already encroached onto the house. It was chaos. They had evacuated. The fire was approaching the house."

He said

We're just trying to get a safe place. I didn't even know what to take. I just have everything in my car,

she said, gesturing tearfully to her packed vehicle

We've been up all night watching this. I haven't slept,

Erica Preciado told one local broadcaster as she drove her family out of the danger zone

We have been fighting fire actively now for 26 hours, and we found all of those fire trucks hooked up to all of those hydrants, and we drained water systems down,

he told reporters

We're going to have an active presence in there for days to come,

he told reporters

We expect Santa Ana winds gusting from the northeast at about 25 to 35 miles per hour through the afternoon hours, along with humidity dropping down to around 10 to 15 percent,

he said

This is the driest we've been in the agency's history,

said Jeremy Webber, a supervising fire warden with the Fire Service

We thought we were going to lose it at 7 o’clock this morning,

Boggie said outside her house Thursday as white smoke billowed through the neighborhood

It’s been a long 26 hours since this incident started, and it remains dynamic and it remains dangerous,

Ventura County Fire Department Chief Dustin Gardner said at a Thursday morning briefing

Our firefighters are doing nothing short of heroic out there right now,

Trevor Johnson, Ventura county fire department captain, said on Wednesday

Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly,

the National Weather Service said on Thursday morning