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Firefighters are tackling a new brush fire — dubbed the Sepulveda Fire — near Interstate 405 and Sepulveda Blvd in Los Angeles. The fire sparked hours after fire crews started to achieve some ...

Nearly a thousand people are under a mandatory evacuation order after a brush fire broke out Tuesday afternoon near Fashion Valley Mall in Mission Valley. The Friars Fire broke out just after 12: ...

The fires are the Lilac Fire, the largest of the blazes, the Pala Fire and the Riverview Fire, the latter of which saw its forward rate of spread stopped by early Tuesday. The San Diego County ...