The Palisades and Eaton wildfires also continue burning in the Los Angeles area, leaving parts of Southern California with ...

Coverage of when the Hughes fire exploded north of Castaic, the areas under evacuation orders and an extended red flag ...

About 18,600 people live in the community of Castaic. Firefighters from Angeles National Forest were responding, the U.S. Forest Service said, announcing that the entire 700,000-acre park in the ...

Firefighters made progress on the more than 10,000-acre Hughes Fire Friday, which sent thousands fleeing after sparking near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic a day earlier.

The Hughes fire about 50 miles north of Los Angeles further taxed firefighters in the region who have managed to bring two ...

LOS ANGELES — A new fire exploded Wednesday north of Castaic, quickly charring 5,000 ... Up to eight helicopters were dropping water on the fire to slow the spread of the flames.

“I’m going to water down the roofline and our backyard – we have some dry brush back there,” the man, whose son goes to the now-evacuated Castaic High School, said. Another ...

By 10 p.m., it had grown to more than 10,000 acres, burning mostly brush around a state park called the Castaic Lake State ... Tens of thousands of gallons of water that earlier had been dumped ...

Picture: AP Firefighters spray water on the Hughes Fire in Castaic, California ... at the entrance to the empty Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia, with large plumes of smoke rising ...

CASTAIC, California: A rapidly growing wildfire ... The Angeles National Forest said its entire 2,800 sq km park in the San Gabriel Mountains was closed to visitors. As a result of the red-flag ...