fire crews They managed to control a vegetation fire that threatened to spread rapidly early this Wednesday in the hills of Castaic, Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) crews were initially called by a 10-acre fire was reported in the 33100 block of North Lake Hughes Roadnear Ridge Route Road, as posted by the Angeles National Forest on social media at 3:12 a.m.
The conflagration, called Lake Fire, quickly spread to approximately 25 acres in less than an hour, at 4:09 am
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As part of the strategy to attack the fire, Firefighters worked quickly to build containment lines around the fire, the Angeles National Forest said on the X social network.
At approximately 4:45 am, fire crews were making significant progress in their efforts to control the fire, with the report of 50% containment.
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In the area it was possible to observe a large fire truck response along Lake Hughes Roada place from which firefighting teams could monitor the conflagration, while the flames were also fought from the air, with the work of firefighting helicopters.
Shortly before 5:30 a.m., officials reported that the fire’s progress had stopped and firefighters had managed to put out the forest fire.
During this Wednesday morning, firefighters continue working to increase containment of the fire and extinguish any hot spots that are identified. to prevent the flames from resurfacing.
The authorities No damaged structures or injured people had been reported. for this fire at least until 8:00 am
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