Firefighters made progress on the more than 10,000-acre Hughes Fire Friday, which sent thousands fleeing after sparking near ...

The Santa Clarita Valley is home to Six Flags Magic Mountain, where a huge plume of smoke from the Hughes Fire was visible in the skyline near ... can find a searchable map showing current ...

The community of Castaic, in the northwest of LA, is being threatened by the rapidly spreading Hughes fire, which was ignited about 11am, and the nearby city of Santa Clarita is also on high alert.

A brush fire started up Wednesday evening in an area of Santa Paula between the Santa Clara River and Highway 126. The blaze was first reported shortly before 7 p.m. in the 600 block of Acacia Road.

A fast-moving wildfire exploded to roughly 10,200 acres near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic Wednesday morning, prompting mandatory evacuation orders and road closures, authorities said.

The Hughes fire, burning near Castaic Lake north of Santa Clarita, exploded to more than 10,000 acres of mostly brush in just a few hours. More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders and ...

At about 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, a huge column of smoke was spotted in the wilderness near Santa Clarita, California ... Picture: Brandon Bell/Getty Images A map of the affected areas.

SANTA CLARITA, Calif.—Firefighters worked into the night to contain a blaze that sparked and quickly spread in northern Los Angeles County, prompting renewed fears of death and destruction in a ...

Flames rise while firefighters battle the Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake, north of Santa Clarita on Jan. 22, 2025. The Hughes Fire burns behind the skyline of Six Flags Magic Mountain on Jan. 22 ...

Crews are battling a fast-moving, wind-driven wildfire burning near Castaic Lake north of Santa Clarita that prompted ... Tap here for the latest evacuation map from Cal Fire.

UPDATE 5:30 p.m.: With the Palisades and Eaton fires still not fully contained, a new Southern California blaze sparked up Wednesday north of Santa Clarita, burning more than 9,400 acres in a ...