The Hughes fire about 80 kilometers north of Los Angeles further taxed firefighters in the region who have managed to bring two major fires burning in the metropolitan area largely under control
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In just a few hours on Wednesday the new fire grew to more than half the size of the Eaton Fire, one of the two monster conflagrations that have ravaged the Los Angeles area. Los Angeles County, the state of California and the US Forest Service said their firefighters were responding. The Angeles National Forest said its entire 700,000-acre park in the San Gabriel Mountains was closed to visitors.
Helicopters scooped water out of a lake to drop on the fire while fixed-wing aircraft dropped fire retardant on the hills, video on KTLA television showed. Flames spread to the water’s edge.
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