Castiac: Wildfire near Casaic on Saturday has led to the closure of the main freeway in South California, officials told local media.
API, known as the fire route, reached 392 hectares, or a little more than half a square mile, at 6:28 a.m.
and forced the closure of the Interstate 5, Angeles National Forest told KTLA-TV.
KTLA reported that the fire route threatened the structure, according to the Sheriff’s Department of Los Angeles County Santa Clarita Valley Station.
API is uncontrolled at the age of 18:30, said the authorities.
Elsewhere in California, the storm that dropped the rain of light gave some breathing space to the crew who struggled to satisfy the country’s big forest fires but lightning triggered several new blaze in the north which was hit by drought, fire officials.
The storm that rolled on Thursday night became Friday followed by the estimates of a bright weather weekend and the heating trend in the fire area to next week.
National weather services said there were more than 1,100 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in California between Thursday night and Friday morning.
API official said lightning strikes ignited at least 17 fires.
Firefighters were diverted from the South Caldor Huge Fire Lake Tahoe to fight some last night lightning fires in all El Dorado Regency, the fire said.
However, most Blazes are stored under 10 hectares (4 hectares).
Three new fire was reported in Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon in a steep and dense forest area in Sierra Nevada.
Up to half an inch of rain down on the parts of the Dixie fire, which began in mid-July and has burned the Great Match of Sierra Nevada North and South Cascades.
The second largest fire in the history of California has burned 1,490 square miles (3,859 square kilometers) land and more than 1,300 homes and other buildings.
It’s 59% contained.
Rain-dry-dry vegetation and will cool fire for one or two days, which firefighters expected to strengthen and expand the fire line in an end to an effort to surround the flames, said API officials.
Turnfire Closure of Freeway forces in South California
