Flames raced down a steep hillside “like a freight train”, leaving smolde.
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Evacuation centers were set up at Hart High School, 24825 N. Newhall, Santa Clarita and Lake View Terrace Recreation Center, 11075 Foothill Blvd, Lake View Terrace.
Santa Clarita’s Sable Ranch, a popular Southern California location for film and TV shoots, was burned to the ground Saturday in a wildfire consuming more than 20,000 acres. No homes are immediately threatened, but f.
Another fire has also broken out further north in mountains near Big Sur. Authorities want to know if the death was caused by the fire or by other means. No other injuries have been reported as a result of the blaze, which began at 2:11 p.m. Friday, near Sand Canyon Road, along the northbound Antelope Valley (14) Freeway.
It has cast a pall of thick black smoke over much of Los Angeles.
Planes have been unable to make drops over the fire, but helicopters are releasing retardant around the perimeter of the blaze. Winds pushed it into the adjacent Angeles National Forest.
The fire has prompted the South Coast Air Quality Management District to issue a smoke warning effective until midnight on Monday.
“We’re seeing higher humidity”, Mitchell said, noting the humidity level had risen to 31 percent Saturday night, up from 10 percent during the day. The fire in northern Los Angeles County grew, darkening skies with smoke that spread across the city and suburbs, reducing the sun to an orange disk at times. But unpredictable winds led officials to rescind that decision.
Another wildfire burning north of Los Angeles has grown to more than 8½ square miles and there’s zero containment.
It was unclear if the death was connected to the fire, but homicide investigators were called out to the area Saturday evening, Deputy Juanita Navarro told BuzzFeed News.
About 300 miles up the coast, crews were battling another fire spanning more than 16 square miles and forcing evacuations outside the scenic Big Sur region.
The blaze five miles south of Garrapata State Park posed a threat to 1,000 homes and the community of Palo Colorado was ordered evacuated, Cal Fire said. One outbuilding has burned. Fire officials say the enormous cloud of smoke produced by the fire can be seen for miles. Some of the evacuation orders were to be lifted Sunday afternoon but because of an “unexpected wind event”, that plan was rescinded later Sunday, the fire department said on Twitter.
They say some residents who fled canyons near Santa Clarita where the homes burned will be allowed to return Sunday afternoon.
The wildfire was only 10 per cent contained yesterday and the cause of was still under investigation.
A firefighter battle flames at the so-called Sand Fire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles July 24, 2016.
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A total of 18 homes were destroyed and one home was damaged by the fire, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
