Five people have died after a fire erupted in the San Gabriel Valley. Mandatory evacuation orders are in place for residents in communities such as La Cañada Flintridge, Altadena, and Sierra Madre.
A fast-moving brush fire that started at 6:23 p.m. on Tuesday quickly burned more than 200 acres near Eaton Canyon in Altadena near the Pasadena border, according to Angeles National Forest officials.
The CAL FIRE map showed that the largest blaze by some margin remained the Palisades fire, which has consumed 19,978 acres in an area to the immediate west of Santa Monica, an increase from 15,800 ...