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fires across California have forced thousands of people to evacuate as dry winds and high heat
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As the Kincade Fire raged out of control in California’s wine country, fast-moving
brush fires burned across Southern California on Thursday afternoon, destroying
homes, closing roads and sending utility crews scrambling to shut off power.
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of Santa Clarita, leaping to 3,700 acres in a matter of hours with no containment.
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mushroomed to 850 acres by 3 p.m., as Los Angeles County firefighters called out a
third alarm and told residents to move out.

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“There is an immediate need for structure protection,” fire officials called out on
Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Twitter feed, asking also for air tankers to
battle the flames.

For some homes in the Santa Clarita Valley, it was already too late. The Los Angeles
Times reported multiple structures were burning as fire crews tried to defend
subdivisions in Agua Dulce.

Northbound Interstate 5 was also closed at Hasley Canyon Road in nearby Castaic
as the Old Fire burned, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Newhall
station. Around 4 p.m., Los Angeles’ CBS2 showed one home in flames along I-5 in
Castaic.

Southland utility Southern California Edison cut power to Agua Dulce before the
Tick Fire ignited. Like Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in Northern California, Edison
turned off power to thousands of homes to reduce the risk of wildfires.

As of 4 p.m., 26,786 Edison customers were without power – nearly 9,900 in Los
Angeles County and another 7,270 in neighboring San Bernanrdino County, where
the Old Water Fire had grown to 105 acres and threatened San Bernardino
neighborhoods, the San Bernardino Sun reported.

By 4:40 p.m., another brush fire – the fourth in a matter of hours Thursday in the
greater Los Angeles area, CBS2 reported – broke out in the Sepulveda Basin near
Interstate 405 and Van Nuys near the Van Nuys Airport.

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