There wasn't mention about extreme wind in the link you provided, all it called out is "southerly winds". The very high winds (100mph gusts) in Los Angeles prev

There wasn't mention about extreme wind in the link you provided, all it called out is "southerly winds". The very high winds (100mph gusts) in Los Angeles prevented fire mitigation aircraft from flying, and spread the fires far and wide very quickly - and the area where the fires started was inaccessible to firefighters, so the fire had very little push-back for the first night so it grew uncontrollably. The circumstances are very different from what happened in the link you provided. Fire crews were ready to fight fires in Los Angeles, and quite a lot of fire crews from outside the area were brought in before the fires even started - they knew how dangerous the situation was, and they were trying to do what they could by staffing up. Once the winds died down, fire-fighting aircraft could fly and started containing the fires on the mountains, but much of the residential areas had already been lost, there was just too much fire and too few resources to keep it under control.