Neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles lie along the so-called urban-wildland interface at the northeast edge of the valley.
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The Sand fire ignited Friday afternoon near the 14 Freeway and Sand Canyon Road, according to the U.S. No homes are i.
A wildfire burning in the mountainous Angeles National Forest north of Los Angeles has grown to more than 17 square miles. Officials said at least 1,500 homes were threatened by the flames. A fire crew approaches as a wildfire burns on Friday, July 22, 2016, in Santa Clarita, Calif.
The home is in an area among those ordered evacuated because of the wildfire that has blackened more than 31-square miles of brush. The body was discovered on Iron Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, just north of Los Angeles.
The home also may have burned, he said. There was no evidence the death was crime-related, they said.
“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.
A huge wildfire in the Los Angeles area spread another 2,000 acres overnight and appeared to have killed a motorist whose remains were found in a charred vehicle in the fire’s path, officials said on Sunday.
In Santa Clarita, more than 900 firefighters battled flames in temperatures exceeding 41C. “We were experiencing 50- to 100-foot flame links running across these ridges and down these slopes and doing the kind of things we normally expect to see at 2 p.m.”, Los Angeles County Fire Department Battalion Chief Dennis Cross said.
By Saturday evening there was good news: The winds had changed direction and firefighters have contained the blaze near the facility, the group said.
Among those evacuated to safety were about 400 animals from the Wildlife Waystation, a sanctuary for rescued exotic animals within the national forest.
What this means for property owners in Santa Clarita, Northridge, Granada Hills, Chatsworth, North Hills, Burbank, Glendale, La Crescenta, Tujunga, Sunland, La Canada Flintridge & Surrounding areas is that damages from smoke, ash, soot and fire related toxic waste pose a significant danger once these materials begin to settle in and around commercial and residential properties.
In the steep, rugged canyons near the Central California coast, a fire near Big Sur in Monterey County burned almost 1 ½ square miles of brush, grass and redwoods.
The state forestry department says the blaze is a threat to 1,000 homes and the Monterey County community of Palo Colorado has been ordered evacuated.
Jerri Masten-Hansen said she and her husband watched the fire creep in toward them.
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He says the home also may have burned. “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”.
