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Fire threatens homes, shuts down both sides of key freeway for holiday weekend travel
The Associated Press
Posted: Sep 02, 2017 7:40 AM ET
Last Updated: Sep 02, 2017 7:40 AM ET
The Los Angeles Fire Department has issued a mandatory evacuation order for residents in Burbank as a raging brush fire threatens their homes.
Residents in the Brace Canyon Park area of Burbank were ordered to leave their homes Friday night.
The fire department says approximately 50 homes are being threatened. An evacuation centre has been set up for displaced residents.
Heavy black smoke rises as a wildfire burns in the Tujunga area of Los Angeles, seen from nearby Burbank on Friday afternoon. (Richard Vogel/Associated Press)
Subdivisions full of houses are within a couple of kilometres of the flames, and officials say about 200 people have voluntarily evacuated their homes.
The brush fire north of Los Angeles also has shut down both sides of key freeway for holiday weekend travel.
The fire department says the blaze is burning on both sides of Interstate 210. The closure of a 19-kilometre stretch was expected to last all night.
Heat wave temperatures and higth winds helped the fire quickly grow to 800 hectares after it started on Friday.
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