Sand fire burns Santa Clarita hillsides, prompts evacuationsEvacuations in Acton include homes along Agua Dulce Canyon Road north to the 14 Freeway, Crown Valley north to the 14 Freeway, and all of Soledad Canyon and Bootlegger Canyon, Los Angeles County fire officials said.
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Mandatory evacuations remain in effect for 10,000 homes, which covers approximately 20,000 residents, and 200 commercial buildings were threatened, according to officials from the Los Angeles County Fire Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
A wildfire outside the scenic Big Sur region on California’s Central Coast has grown to more than 23 square miles as the fire charged uphill in an area that’s hard to access. No new measurements were available, but officials said the fire might now be double that size.
More than 1,600 firefighters are battling the blaze which has torn through at least 51 square miles of drought-parched canyons, devastating at least 18 homes and threatening thousands more.
“The fire surprised everyone and seemingly came out of nowhere”, Brown said Sunday. Authorities initially said some residents in Sand Canyon will be allowed to return to their homes at 1 p.m. However, officials said those Sand Canyon residents will not be allowed back home due to the changing winds.
A 4,155-hectare (10,262-acre) fire was also burning in a coastal area of Monterey county, 480 km northwest of Santa Clarita, prompting authorities to widen evacuation orders to several communities on Sunday, a Cal Fire spokeswoman said.
When Toscano heard his home had burned to the ground, he was pulled from the Roblar Fire and reassigned to the Sand Fire.
Los Angeles County firefighters watch brush fires on Placenta Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, Calif., Sunday, July 24, 2016.
A man’s body was found Saturday night in a burned vehicle on Iron Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, KTLA reported.
Lois Wash, 87, said she and her daughter and her dog evacuated, but her husband refused.
The interference could result in the wildfire growing larger, possibly leading to even more damage and destruction from a fire that already has destroyed at least 18 homes, according to the federal InciWeb page for the incident. And it doesn’t look like it’ll be over anytime soon; as of Monday morning, containment is still at 10%.
Planes have been unable to make drops over the fire, but helicopters are releasing retardant around the perimeter of the blaze.
The fire destroyed a western town set on the Sable Ranch, a well-known and well-used filming location.
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Community members showed up Saturday at the Wildlife WayStation in Sylmar to help evacuate some 400 exotic animals from the 160-acre sanctuary at 14831 Little Tujunga Canyon Road.
