The Los Angeles County coroner identified a man whose body was found in a vehicle in a neighborhood near the Sand Fire in the Santa Clarita area.
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“That fire came through like a freight train”, John Tripp, incident commander with the Los Angeles County Fire Department, told the station.
Firefighters battling a wildfire about 40 miles (64 km) north of Los Angeles faced another day of brutal heat on Tuesday after reporting progress containing the blaze under cooler conditions overnight.
All residents evacuated from California’s Sand fire have been allowed to return to their homes.
Rubble makes up the remains of a Palo Colorado area residence leveled by the Soberanes Fire near Big Sur, California. An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people were forced to evacuate but late on Monday, fire officials lifted the evacuation order for the majority of residents.
In the scenic Big Sur region of the Central Coast had destroyed 20 homes and threatened 1,650 others as it burned 77.7 sq. kilometres, though firefighters had it 10 per cent contained. Fire crews have made some gains against a massive wildfire burning in rugged terrain near the scenic Big Sur region. His partner was informed by sheriff’s officials that Bresnick had been found dead in a burned auto, the neighbor said. About 25 percent of the fire has been contained.
A man killed by the inferno, Robert Bresnick, 67, had been told to evacuate, but refused.
The Wyoming fire in a remote region burned almost 11 square miles (28 square kilometers) and forced the evacuations of 900 people but no homes had burned by Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
The fire also destroyed a western town set on the Sable Ranch, a well-known filming location, according to authorities. Cal Fire helicopters flew back and forth between the ocean, where they collected water, and the Santa Clarita area, where they dumped the water on the fire lines. We should be good, if the winds don’t pick up.
“Her house is gone, her boyfriend is gone”, Franklin said.
An air quality advisory remained in effect until midnight on Tuesday midnight, as acrid layers of smoke continued to drift across a widespread area.
“I only left when it got really bad”, Bates said.
He still didn’t know what happened to his house.
Officials are uncertain about the cause of the fire, but drought conditions, dried bush and increasing temperatures facilitated the fire’s spread to about 57 square miles, which is larger than the city of San Francisco, according to a CNN report.
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The blaze that has destroyed 20 homes was burning inland over a ridge and was not for the most part visible on the Pacific Coast Highway, which remained open, but with its signature views hard to see in the dark haze.
