Los Angeles firefighters say they have contained a brush fire that threatened homes in a densely populated neighborhood along a freeway. Officials say the fire is burning in steep terrain that’s hard to access.
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The California Highway Patrol received report at 10:57 a.m. of a fatal vehicle crash along Highway 39 near the reservoir where the fire broke out, said CHP Officer Alex Rubio.
A shot of a plane helping firefighters to decrease the fire’s potency and reach along San Gabriel Mountains. The blaze, dubbed the Reservoir Fire, quickly spread to 300 acres. A Forest Service spokesman said 195 personnel are fighting that fire.
About 90 minutes after the Reservoir Fire began, a second blaze was reported near Opal Canyon and Brookridge roads near the Duarte/Azusa border, about four miles southwest of the Reservoir Fire.
Forecasters expected the heat to peak Monday, with temperatures ranging from 100 to 110 degrees in most inland areas and potentially breaking records along the coast.
A forest fire has erupted in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles amid withering heat.
The fire started around 11:45 a.m., NBC L.A. reports, citing the U.S. Forest Service.
Angeles National Forest spokesman Nathan Judy says helicopters are on the scene and air tankers have been ordered.
Lee said a water-dropping helicopter has been drawing water from Puddingstone Reservoir at Frank G. Bonelli Park in San Dimas and dropping its load on the Reservoir Fire.
“Temperatures in Azusa, California, are around 110 degrees this afternoon”. He describes the structures as toolsheds built into terraced hillsides behind homes.
Crews have established at least some kind of line all the way around the fire burning in the Manzano Mountains southeast of Albuquerque.
Two major brush fires erupted Monday in Azusa and Duarte, two small cities located south of the Angeles National Forest, knocking out power and sparking a mandatory evacuation of about 600 homes, according to KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.
A firefighting BAe-146s jet drops fire retardant on the Sherpa Fire outside Santa Barbara, California, June 18, 2016. The latest size estimate Friday morning is almost three times the previous acreage, with just 5 percent containment.
The blaze is now 54 percent surrounded and remains at just over 12 square miles.
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Another fire has also started in the Foothills above Duarte, which is in a more populated area than the Azusa fire.
