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Wildfire rages in national forest near Los Angeles

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    Adam Housley reports from California

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-- extreme weather alert bleed dry and slightly windy conditions hampering -- efforts to control.

A large wildfire that is burning in California.

So by the flames have burned about five and a half miles of far -- near Los Angeles -- houses live an -- West Coast music.

Any success in fighting this thing overnight these pictures are -- Credible.

Yet -- -- -- are quite dramatic isn't Glendora above Glendora California in the Angeles national force to be flying to Los Angeles from the east as those mountains -- to the right hand side you come in to LA.

You can see the pictures that you I said extremely dramatic as the fire races up the hillsides here this is the -- remote and steep area.

The Angeles National Forest this time a year in this area has about 121000 visitors visit us some video -- -- -- this morning to live video actually now coming into -- From our affiliate KT TV you can see the glow on the mountains as the sun comes up here in Southern California.

The good news is right now it's not threatening any homes or any major camp grounds the bad news for those people.

Up in the mountains again normally 121000 this -- here.

They were all evacuated because they need the roads and the access roads for all the fire trucks -- -- and everybody out of the areas and have to worry about it now as the camera zooms -- get you can see very steep conditions we at least nine aircraft.

But helping fight this fire that the clouds is to absolutely dramatic you can see it from all over Los Angeles has -- continues to burn.

The other good news point also marked in the fact that no homes are -- threaten is that there is no Santa Ana winds yet this time a year so -- is being stoked by some wins it's not those dramatic Santa Ana winds that really.

Fuel some of these buyers come late October 1 part of November -- Way incredible the scale of the clouds in these pictures that we're seeing here this is in some wild fire season Adam and it's not over.

Yeah yeah we covered fires so far in Arizona two major fires in Colorado have been fires in Montana Idaho organ will.

Every western states had at least one major fire northern California a week and a half ago we -- they're covering.

A couple of major fires the numbers that are are coming out so far -- are just unbelievable -- I.

Right now -- saying they spent sixteen million dollars and fire.

An under fifty million is is allocated for the rest of the year.

Others over a thousand wire fires in -- alone just give you an example once -- Washington State projecting they'll spend about twenty million.

On -- -- fire suppression.

And we -- really got into California's fire season yet we -- had major fires again in northern California now this one.

In Southern California but the real California fire season September October November.

And so the western states are tender dry it's becoming a very difficult fire season has firefighters say they're already stretched then Martha and again we'll get rained out here.

Until usually October.

Wait a you know you look at that the flames in those pictures -- compared to the trees next to them and you get a sense for just how big.

And those claims are -- now Adam thank you very much out of house we'll check in with a little bit later.

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