They don't know the terrain, geography, they're not familiar with the devil winds that generally come at the end of summers, and in fall when everything is bone dry from summer.
It's probably hard for them to imagine a wind driven wall of fire with flames 40' high being blown like a blast furnace, with thousands of burning embers flying by at 40+ mph. It's going to be a long night in S. CA for some.
Yep. We have a boat in Ventura and I spend a lot of time there and have many friends there. Daughters friend lost her house. My niece was evacuated from Santa Paula. Gal that lives next door to us in the marina hasn’t been able to get to work. So many stories. You have to know these areas to understand the fires there.