Wildfire traps 5 people who refused to evacuate at Los Angeles-area ranch in canyon

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says five people who refused to heed wildfire evacuation orders are trapped in a canyon and it’s too dangerous to rescue them.

LA-area wildfire grows to 164 square miles of brush, timber; 12,000 homes still threatened

LOS ANGELES — A wildfire northeast of Los Angeles has spread to 164 square miles of brush and timber and it continues to grow.

Wildfire surges closer to Los Angeles, threatens thousands of homes, vital broadcasting center

LOS ANGELES — A deadly wildfire destroyed more than four dozen homes as it blackened a wide swath of tinder-dry Southern California forest, forced thousands of residents to flee and burned dangerously close Monday to a vital mountaintop broadcasting complex.

Wildfires: For people of downtown Los Angeles, smoky air is a Southern California tradition

LOS ANGELES — The air quality turned hazardous, a brownish mushroom cloud billowed in the distance, and a gauze of gray smoke draped the Hollywood sign.

3 critically burned by massive Los Angeles-area forest fire that threatens 12,000 homes

LOS ANGELES — Fire officials say a massive wildfire that cost two firefighters their lives also critically burned three people in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles.

California wildfire doubles in size, threatens 12,000 homes

LOS ANGELES - A raging California wildfire doubled in size Monday and two firefighters were killed when their vehicle tumbled down a mountain as they were fighting the region’s worst blaze of the year.

Multiple wildfires scorch California, other Western states amid hot temperatures, low humidity

A look at wildfires across the U.S. West on Monday:

Massive Los Angeles-area wildfire doubles in size to 134 square miles; 12,000 homes threatened

LOS ANGELES — A massive fire in the Angeles National Forest nearly doubled in size overnight, threatening 12,000 homes Monday in a 20-mile-long swath of flame and smoke and surging toward a mountaintop broadcasting complex and historic observatory.

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