A brush fire that’s burned 5,208 acres since breaking out Wednesday in the Castaic area was 71% contained on Saturday, with firefighters battling punishing triple-digit heat along with the flames.
There were no reports of any other injuries.
“The headline for us on the Angeles National Forest is going to be the conditions we're in now,” he told reporters. “The fire behavior and what you saw yesterday should be a wake-up call to us all about the potential that we're in and we're entering into over the next few days in terms of the fire conditions. Very rapid fire growth and very, very explosive fire behavior.
An evacuation order issued Wednesday afternoon for the Paradise Ranch Mobile Home park in Gorman was lifted Thursday, along with an order for homes along Ridge Route Road.
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