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Los Angeles fire worsens, 10,000 homes threatened
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 30 - 08 - 2009


A wildfire raging in a
long stretch of the heavily populated Los Angeles foothills
threatened 10,000 homes today and marched toward
communities on the other side of the mountains, according to Reuters.
The heat-driven fire nearly doubled in size overnight and
has now burned burned 35,000 acres (14,000 hectares) of
bone-dry brush in the mountains above five towns, a 10-mile
stretch from La Crescenta to Pasadena, the California Fire
Department said.
Some 10,000 homes are under evacuation orders and 500
commercial buildings are in danger, as is Mount Wilson, the
nexus for key telecommunications facilities, including TV and
radio transmission towers, the U.S. Forest Service said.
The fire that started on Wednesday above the exclusive
community of La Canada Flintridge is only 5 percent contained
but firefighters may benefit on Sunday from slightly cooler
temperatures, just below 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 Celsius).
The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Dense smoke filled the skies over the foothills and
prompted authorities to issue health warnings for the Los
Angeles basin.
The flames appeared to wane on Saturday evening in the area
near NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory but raged at the other
end and moved through the mountains toward the inland community
of Acton, where evacuations were ordered on Sunday.
The saving grace in this fire has been the absence of high
winds but much of the brush in the area has not burned in 60
years and humidity is below 10 percent.
Three remote homes have been lost to the flames and three
people have been injured. Nearly 2,000 firefighters are on the
ground but it is the aerial assault of water and retardant that
has best kept the fire from moving into homes, many of them
worth millions of dollars.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was scheduled to
visit the so-called Station Fire on Sunday morning, the worst
conflagration in the Los Angeles area since a spate of fires
destroyed hundreds of homes in November 2008.
He declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County last
week in response to four fires in the area.


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