California wildfires continue burning: how to help

[Music] while fires in Los Angeles continue to burn with no end in sight at least 24 people have been killed with additional buildings being destroyed 22 news reporter Jack Woo is live in studio to explain what makes this set of fire so dangerous CR and Nick these fires are tearing through heavily populated areas and weather conditions are expected to keep these fires burning through this week the California Department of Forestry and fire estimates that nearly 40,000 Acres have burned in and around the Los Angeles area that's 10 times what Massachusetts experienced during our most recent Fire season Chief Fire Warden Dave selino explains how these fires intensified so quickly this time La unfortunately was right in the Bull's Eye um and received 80 to 100 Mile hour um wind gusts and uh and that really drove the fire Behavior Uh for this period of time the National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning through 6 p.m. on Friday for areas in in Los Angeles and Ventura County with windgust potentially reaching the 60s during the next two days if you would like to support relief efforts head over to our website at wwlp.com working for you I'm Jack woo 22 News and as Jack said if you want to help out those affected by the fires our parent company nextstar is raising money to help pay for Recovery efforts if you are interested in donating to help victims of This Disaster you can scan the QR code on your screen again at least 24 people are dead from those fires