Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana ... effect the winds seem to have on residents psychologically. American author Raymond Chandler once ...

LOS ANGELES — Santa Ana winds are common in Southern California ... In the short story “Red Wind,” Raymond Chandler captured the emotional effect: “There was a desert wind blowing that ...

There’s always been a black hole in the center of the California sunlight, and the Santa Ana winds blow through ... John Fante (“Ask the Dust”), Raymond Chandler (“Red Wind”) and ...

It's hard to do much more because there is fuel - dry vegetation, buildings - and because of the Santa Ana winds blowing ... There's a famous passage from a Raymond Chandler short story in which ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Santa Ana winds are common in Southern California ... In the short story “Red Wind,” Raymond Chandler captured the emotional effect: “There was a desert wind blowing ...