Last Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a rare “particularly dangerous situation” (PDS) red flag warning to Los Angeles and Ventura counties about incoming strong winds. “This is about as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather,” the warning for Tuesday through Thursday said. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Over the next three days, fires whipped by gusts of up to 100 m.p.h.