Fire forces thousands to evacuate north of Los Angeles
A fast -growing brush fire forced thousands of people to evacuate thousands of people in a mountainous area in the north of Los Angeles.
According to the Ventura County Fire Department, the canyon fire fired in the afternoon afternoon and grew more than 19.7 square kilometers.
At least 400 firefighters were fighting various aircraft and helicopters. Authorities said it was not closed and spread to the east Los Angeles County.
The fire burns just south of Lake Piru Lake, a reservoir in the National Forest of Los Padres. In January, a popular recreation area burned by the Hughes Fire near Lake Castaic.
According to the National Weather Service, sunny, hot and dry conditions were expected in the area where the canyon fever was burned on Friday.
Authorities, La County approximately 2700 calm, under the order of evacuation was released with 700 buildings, he said. 14,000 people and 5000 buildings were met with a evacuation warning.
The areas in the Verde region were reduced to a warning from an order.
Ventura District Fire Brigade Spokesman Andrew Dowd, near Ventura district of the evacuation zones are not relatively population, he said. Fifty -six people were evacuated from the rest area of Piru Lake.
Dowd called Blaze as a “very dynamic situation” caused by hot, dry air, upright and rugged land and dry fuel.
La District Supervisor Kathryn Barger called on the residents to evacuate.
“Excessive heat and low humidity in our North district have created dangerous conditions in which flames can spread at a worrying speed,” Barger said in a statement. He said. “If the first answers tell you to go, go without hesitation.”
The new fire comes with a huge forest fire in the center of California, where the province has become the greatest fire of the year and threatened hundreds of houses in the Los Padres National Forest and out of control.
Gifford Fire was spread to 402 km2 with a 15 percent positioning until Thursday night. On August 1, the State Route grew from at least four small fire that exploded at 166 and injured at least four people. The causes of fires are investigated.
Due to a heat wave in which the area is intensified, most of the internal California will increase the risk of forest fire during the weekend. August and September are often the most dangerous months for forest fires in the US state.
