No other information was immediately available.
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KTLA reported that a neighbor said the man had been found dead in a burned vehicle and that his home had burned down.
Some 20,000 acres have been obliterated by the rampant inferno as emergency services admit they only have “10 per cent” of the blaze under control.
“You’ve still got hotspots in that area, a lot of smoldering stuff”, and trees that might fall because their roots had burned, Judy said.
More than 300 firefighters are battling the fire and one firefighter suffered a minor hand injury Friday, Judy said.
Despite firefighters’ efforts, the blaze destroyed sets at Sable Ranch in Santa Clarita, which has Old West-style buildings used for movie locations.
“We’ve got big cats, tigers, bears, we’ve got hyenas, we’ve got chimps”, executive director Susan Hartland told KABC-TV.
Smoke drifted into the Los Angeles area, leading to potentially unsafe air quality.
“You could see the fire (on) the top of that mountain, the tops of all these mountains, 20 feet up in the air”, Bell said. Cal Fire helicopters spent all day flying back and forth between the ocean, where they collected water, and the mountain ridges at the park, where they dropped the water.
Ash from burned brush fell miles away from the actual flames, and the large smoke plume spread through such a wide area across Southern California that officials issued a smoke advisory for residents as far as 60 miles away. “It’s going in different directions depending on which way the wind is blowing”. While Central Coast temperatures were more moderate, conditions included winds and low humidity.
And residents of between 200 and 300 home in the area were also under a mandatory evacuation order, according to the sheriff’s department.
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Authorities found the burned body of a man Saturday night in Santa Clarita, Calif., within the evacuation area for a wildfire that has grown to more than 30 square miles. “I grabbed all the pictures of the kids, and then I took the paintings of my parents that had been done by a local artist”, Ellen Masten said.
