As wildfires continue to burn in Southern California, with a new one erupting yesterday (December 6th) in the exclusive Bel-Air section of Los Angeles, there was concern about possible unprecedented fire danger overnight as the Santa Ana winds were expected to gust as high as 80 miles per hour. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection issued the most severe purple warning on its color-coded wind index for the first time ever. As many as five wildfires that blazed into life earlier this week have caused some 200,000 people to evacuate their homes, closed highways, and shut down schools because of poor air quality, as firefighters battle to contain them. Hundreds of homes are believed to have been destroyed across the Los Angeles metropolitan area, but no deaths have been reported so far.