Intense winds are once again fanning the flames of the LA wildfires. 

Newstalk ZB's California correspondent Richard Arnold told Tim Beveridge it comes as officials are ramping up the emergency response. 

He says there's an "army" of about 15 thousand firefighters on the frontline and he's never seen anything quite like it. 

Arnold says it’s hard to stop embers from spreading in the blustery conditions.  

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