A fast-growing brush fire has burned almost 1,500 acres along the 14 Freeway east of Santa Clarita, prompting some evacuations in the area, authorities said.
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Being called the Sand Fire, the blaze was burning on the northbound side of the freeway at Sand Canyon Road, and people were told to avoid the area in a Los Angeles County Fire Department alert. The brush fire has prompted evacuations from Soledad Canyon Road at the Antelope Valley Freeway to Agua Dulce Canyon Road, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Driven by gusty winds, the fire quickly enveloped almost 4 square miles of brush near a freeway, State Route 14.
Freeway lanes were shut, roadways blocked and Metrolink trains delayed.
Smoke from the fire could be seen miles away in downtown Los Angeles. Gusty winds fueled the fire and made it move eastward into the Angeles National Forest. “It absolutely looked like the apocalypse”.
Firefighting helicopter doing water drops on an earlier Santa Clarita fire, not the one that broke out Friday. No buildings are threatened. No homes are immediately threatened, but f.
The evacuation center is at Golden Valley High School and Canyon Country Park is closed while crews use it as a command post.
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It was heading toward the famously attractive Big Sur forest and was expected to burn more fiercely at night as moist ocean air retreated and warm, dry air from inland began blowing toward the sea, state fire spokesman Jonathan Pangburn said.
