LOS ANGELES: A rapidly growing wildfire broke out some 80 km north of Los Angeles on Wednesday (Jan 22), burning 5.3 square km, while two major fires burning in the metropolitan area for more than two weeks were getting under control, fire officials said.
The Hughes Fire in the Castaic Lake area of Los Angeles County forced evacuations with warnings of “immediate threat to life”, while much of Southern California remained under a red flag warning for extreme fire risk due to strong, dry winds.
The number of people under evacuation orders was not specified. About 18,600 people live in the community of Castaic.
Firefighters from Angeles National Forest were responding, the US Forest Service said, announcing that the entire 700,000-acre park in the San Gabriel Mountains was closed to visitors.
Source: CNA
