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Wildfires force hundreds to evacuate in Southern California
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William La Jeunesse reports from Los Angeles
- Duration 2:06
- Date Sep 24, 2012
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George Fox News alert right now a pair of fast moving wildfires erupting in Southern California.
Threatening at least 200 homes east of LA.
We in my -- is on that live in LA now when William what's sparked off.
What bill this time a year it does not take much a lightning strike some embers from the smoldering campfire both those fires are under investigation.
-- one fire erupted on Sunday afternoon near -- park.
In Riverside County about sixty miles southeast of Los Angeles it destroyed four homes threatening 200 more.
-- at a high school is known evacuation center and shelter.
A second fire.
Literally started right along US Mexican border in San Diego County that is pretty steep terrain.
The fires -- the -- Indian reservation -- destroyed twenty homes threatening eighty more.
Both of these are brush fires bill meaning they move very quickly and sparking change direction with -- even mild changes in the -- or direction in the wind.
No injuries the cause of those fires bill as I said.
Under investment so we're just coming into the season right now what about elsewhere in the west where you.
We know the weather here in Southern California is cooling off right about now -- a similar change in whether up in Washington State -- help firefighters there.
Over the weekend.
-- -- land count me in the Cascade Mountains of fire they are destroyed some.
Forest Service buildings and a few thousand acres of course that's much -- higher train if you will lot of heavy timber there.
By 2000 people under mandatory evacuation.
While about a hundred miles south of that in a wilderness area near the Yakima nation.
Firefighters -- successfully stopped the fire from going to more populated areas areas rather both of those fires again by lightning.
But as you said this time a year mother nature give and take of the way so -- lot lower temperatures less wind right now in Southern California that's gonna help.
But by the end of the week is gonna go up so -- you have the chaparral in the high desert very dry timber very little moisture in the would.
In the Santa Ana season you know it can be like about the next thirty to 45 days and if it's dry it's even worse William thank you for that William margins were watching -- --
