California wildfire spreads at staggering pace; 82,000 ordered to evacuate
A new wildfire spread Tuesday at a staggering pace through drought parched canyons east of Los Angeles, growing to 10 square miles in a matter of hours and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people in a mountain resort town.
A fire official says more than 82,000 people have been told to evacuate from mountain communities threatened by a powerful wildfire in Southern California.
San Bernardino County fire spokesman Eric Sherwin says the evacuation orders were given to about 34,500 homes.
Sherwin says some structures have already burned, but it hasn't yet been determined whether any of them were homes.
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