They were continuing to investigate the cause of the fire.
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For a second day, triple-digit highs were forecast for many regions of Southern California.
Smoke drifted into the Los Angeles area, leading to potentially unsafe air quality.
The fast-growing fire prompted a number of evacuations, including a mandatory one in unincorporated Little Tujunga Canyon. The cool-down is expected to begin Saturday evening and continue overnight, though Munroe cautioned that some inland valleys could feel just as hot because humidity there is expected to increase.
Firefighters are battling a blaze that has burned almost 2,000 acres in the northern Big Sur area of Monterey County, causing evacuations and threatening 1,000 homes, officials said Saturday morning.
A new order was issued about 3:45 p.m. for Sand Canyon area from Lost Canyon Road to Bear Divide, and in Placerita Canyon from the Nature Center to Sand Canyon. Some lanes were shut and Metrolink train service in the area was halted. A wildfire north of Los Angeles has now burned about 2.3 square miles of bon. The fire burned through the area Saturday evening. “It absolutely looked like the apocalypse”.
It took 180 firefighters more than two hours to knock down the blaze, which sent up a smoke cloud that could be seen for miles.
A wildfire burning in the mountainous Angeles National Forest north of Los Angeles has grown to more than 17 square miles.
Nighttime images showed long glowing lines on the ridges, topped by soaring swaths of flames and walls of smoke.
Up the Californian coast, hundreds of firefighters battled a separate blaze in the area near Big Sur. Garrapata State Park south of Carmel was closed for the weekend.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department Public Information Desk’s Twitter account said last night that the fire was at zero percent containment and as of today had not updated that figure. Flames threatened roughly 1,500 homes and some structures have been destroyed, according to KABC.
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The so-called Sand Fire broke out on Friday afternoon and spread quickly near Santa Clarita, about 65km northwest of the city.
