Until this week, most of the fires have been largely located in remote areas.
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More than 1,600 firefighters were tackling the flames that sent up a huge plume of smoke visible across the region. The fire was only 10% contained Monday.
The latest evacuation order covers residents of the area of Sand Canyon and Placerita Canyon roads, county fire officials said.
A top priority is to get evacuated people back into their homes but first firefighters need to make sure there are no embers or anything else that could flare up, Tripp said.
Her sister also left her home down the road.
He returned Monday night delighted to find the house and everything around it had been saved, and could see a line of red fire retardant nearby where a helicopter had stopped the fire’s approach.
Authorities put the number of people evacuated at 1500. Authorities said he may have died trying to escape the fire.
“We’ve had deputies and officers nearly run over by people trying to get into their homes” after roads were closed, he said. The fire is only about 10% contained, says Vanessa Lozando, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It was unclear if all of them would remain open given the lifting of most evacuation orders. “The significant amount of fuels on the fire are like 30 years old, so they’re decadent”. The LA County Board of Supervisors plans to declare a state of emergency Tuesday.
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Toscano, a former Marine, heard about his home after coming off the fireline for a wildfire in the Cleveland National Forest in Greater San Diego, and immediately went home to witness what he lost, according to the campaign’s creator, Brandon Opliger, who is a squad leader for the Little Tujunga Hotshots.
One fire, referred to as the Sand Fire, has burned through around 150 square kilometres in the Angeles National Forest. “An acre is a football field, so imagine that, 10,000 football fields a day”.
He added that some crews have been working three days straight. He said the areas of Sand Canyon and Via Princessa are now being checked and hoped to repopulate those areas sometime Monday.
The fire grew again overnight in Saturday and covered 22,000 acres, or 34-square miles.
Onlookers gather at the parking lot of a shopping mall along Golden Valley Road in Santa Clarita, California to watch the Sand Fire burn in the hills above the city. Two firefighters were reported to have suffered minor injuries in the firefight as of Monday morning.
As the blaze changed direction multiple times over the weekend firefighters were forced to retreat and thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. The cause of the fire is under investigation. – All residents along Little Tujunga Canyon Road from the Wildlife Way Station to Sand Canyon Road and Placerita Canyon Road. An evacuation center is opened at the Carmel Middle School in the town of Carmel-by-the-Sea. Another evacuation center was set up at Highland High School, 39055 25th Street West, Palmdale.
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Plans to begin allowing some displaced residents to return to their communities were canceled late on Sunday after a risky shift in the winds. Train service will operate between Via Princessa and Los Angeles only, Metrolink officials said.
