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Fire could take off again, fire chief tells BBC

The fight against the fires is at a "fork in the road", Pasadena's fire chief tells the BBC.

"Once we get past Wednesday night I'm going to be saying, 'wooh, we made it and this fire is just about under control' and then we're going to spent the next couple of weeks just mopping up hotspots and embers - or this fire's going to take off on Tuesday or Wednesday with these increased wind conditions," Chad Augustin tells the Today programme.

Augustin says it's "all hands on deck" in an effort "to keep gaining containment on this fire".

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