Brush fire sweeps through Southern California - pepole evacuated

Southern California was in the grip of a fast-moving brush fire that swept through hills threatening 3,000 homes, damaging a few of them and forcing hundreds of people to flee - some with their pets and livestock. As per initial reports, the fire erupted in late afternoon in tinder-dry brush as temperatures soared to nearly 100 degrees in the canyons and ridges northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 5 June 2016.

There was a handful of fires that had started in Calabasas and the neighboring West Hills area of Los Angeles. However, while the West Hills blaze was quickly doused, other fires combined and grew to cover more than 200 acres in a matter of hours. The 50-foot-high flames raced along ridgelines and even torched trees and brush very close to million-dollar Spanish-style homes below.
There are doubts that the fire may have started when a car hit a power pole and knocked down a power line which, in turn, sparked flames in the tinder-dry brush. Three neighborhoods that crowded on twisty streets below the hillsides were ordered evacuated. Some 200 homes and some 500 to 600 people were under the mandatory evacuation orders.
Some horse-owners moved the animals away using trailers to haul them away. The authorities set up an evacuation center for people with large animals at Pierce College in Woodland Hills.


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