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(July 30) -- Flames from an aggressive wildfire continue to rage today, threatening more than 1,500 homes in northern Los Angeles County. The fast-moving blaze has already burned through 8,000 acres of brush and shows no signs of stopping.
After battling the fire for nearly 24 hours, there is 5 percent containment, the Los Angeles County Fire Department told the Los Angeles Times. Firefighters are using helicopters to drop water from the air to stop the blaze, known as the Crown fire. It began Thursday afternoon, spreading quickly as high winds sent the flames rushing across the desert.
Authorities are focused on protecting "critical infrastructure," Deputy Chief Michael Bryant of the Los Angeles County Fire Department told The Times.
"It's fuel- and topography-driven, but when fires have this much fuel and burn this hot, they make their own wind," said Matt Levesque of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
More than 1,500 homes in rural Leona Valley near the city of Palmdale in the Antelope Valley were evacuated, and still more people may be forced to leave as the wildfire continues unabated. At least two structures have been destroyed by the flames, the paper reported. The Antelope Valley is the site of Edwards Air Force Base, where Chuck Yeager famously broke the sound barrier in 1947, inspiring the movie, "The Right Stuff."
"Man, it looks bad outside. If I step outside the restaurant, it's just insane looking -- black and orange smoke and helicopters going through, dropping water," Jamie Karschamroon of Leona Valley told The Associated Press.
Two other wildfires raged through the Los Angeles area Thursday. One, in Kern County, north of the massive wildfire closer to Los Angeles, was fully contained. Another fire was 44 percent contained Thursday night but destroyed dozens of homes in Old West Ranch, a sparsely populated community near the Mojave Desert, authorities told the AP.
The three wildfires began just hours after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took a helicopter tour of the areas devastated by last year's wildfires, which burned through nearly 250 square miles in the Los Angeles area.
"We're still in a drought here notwithstanding the fact we had some rain this year," Villaraigosa said in a news conference Thursday before the flames erupted, according to the San Jose Mercury News. "We've got to be very, very careful."
After battling the fire for nearly 24 hours, there is 5 percent containment, the Los Angeles County Fire Department told the Los Angeles Times. Firefighters are using helicopters to drop water from the air to stop the blaze, known as the Crown fire. It began Thursday afternoon, spreading quickly as high winds sent the flames rushing across the desert.
Authorities are focused on protecting "critical infrastructure," Deputy Chief Michael Bryant of the Los Angeles County Fire Department told The Times.
"It's fuel- and topography-driven, but when fires have this much fuel and burn this hot, they make their own wind," said Matt Levesque of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
More than 1,500 homes in rural Leona Valley near the city of Palmdale in the Antelope Valley were evacuated, and still more people may be forced to leave as the wildfire continues unabated. At least two structures have been destroyed by the flames, the paper reported. The Antelope Valley is the site of Edwards Air Force Base, where Chuck Yeager famously broke the sound barrier in 1947, inspiring the movie, "The Right Stuff."
"Man, it looks bad outside. If I step outside the restaurant, it's just insane looking -- black and orange smoke and helicopters going through, dropping water," Jamie Karschamroon of Leona Valley told The Associated Press.
Two other wildfires raged through the Los Angeles area Thursday. One, in Kern County, north of the massive wildfire closer to Los Angeles, was fully contained. Another fire was 44 percent contained Thursday night but destroyed dozens of homes in Old West Ranch, a sparsely populated community near the Mojave Desert, authorities told the AP.
The three wildfires began just hours after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took a helicopter tour of the areas devastated by last year's wildfires, which burned through nearly 250 square miles in the Los Angeles area.
"We're still in a drought here notwithstanding the fact we had some rain this year," Villaraigosa said in a news conference Thursday before the flames erupted, according to the San Jose Mercury News. "We've got to be very, very careful."
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