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Firefighters are rescuing people from homes engulfed in flames as they battle a wildfire moving at a dangerously fast speed in a dense suburban neighborhood northwest of Los Angeles.

Roughly 50 miles south of the Mountain Fire in Ventura County, another brush fire on the highway in Malibu burned 50 acres before fire crews stopped its forward progress and contained it at 15%, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.

At least two people have been injured and several structures have been damaged or destroyed by the Mountain Fire, which rapidly expanded in size due to a combination of very dry air and powerful Santa Ana winds, prompting National Weather Service forecasters to issue a series of alerts and warnings earlier in the day.

It’s not yet clear how many structures are impacted because it’s too dangerous for damage inspection teams to be on the ground, according to Ventura County fire officials.

“The hair on the back of the firefighter’s neck I’m sure was standing up,” Ventura County Fire Captain Trevor Johnson said at a news conference while discussing one of the rescues on Wednesday. “This is a day where you’re truly prepared to do every part of your job and risk everything to save everything.”

The strong winds are allowing fire embers to travel with the smoke over a range of two and a half miles, as more than 14,000 people remain under evacuation orders, the fire department said.

Firefighters have conducted intense rescues under dangerous conditions, pulling people from houses and rescuing others from streets engulfed in flames, officials said.

The Storm Prediction Center has issued an “extremely critical” level 3 of 3 risk for fire weather conditions in parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties in Southern California.