The Canyon Fire, north of Los Angeles, has grown rapidly to nearly 5,000 acres in size, with thousands of people ordered to evacuate.

The Canyon Fire near Val Verde and Lake Piru has burned 30–50 acres, prompting evacuation orders in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. Mandatory and warning-level evacuations are in effect as fire ...

Temperatures in the area are near 100 degrees and humidity as low as 15 percent. The southern part of California has seen very little rain, drying out vegetation and making it "ripe to burn," the ...