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GREAT VIDEO!

News is reporting another fire near Canyon Country/Mint Canyon off the 14 fwy.

omg that was AWESOME !

Erin

saw the "little tujunga" hotshot boys at ralphs looking all tired and soot'ed up! poor boys. they are all fighting the azusa fire... soon to head to the la cres fire.

here is a pic from the parking lot of ralphs.. look at that dark burn. ewww.

We could see some flames all the way over in Shadow Hills.

Another bad fire in Rancho Palos Verdes on KCAL. Homes are threatened.

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With the amount of people that were parked in the OSH parking lot, to watch the fire, we should have had a TFF get together.

I'm not joking around or trying to be funny, we just went out there to get a look, there were already around 10-20 people there.

My cousin is in command of the water drops. One of the cranes is named Isabella and it was just used last in Santa Cruz fire. He said if any structures are threatened they will call the water drops back in. Right now it's just ground crew holding the line.

We drove around earlier to get a closer look and we certainly were not alone.

do they use air support at night? I certainly hope so!

KCAL is reporting that there are now mandatory evacuations in the upper areas of LCF nearest the fire, going as far down as the La Canada Country Club.

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edit: According to the 11 p.m. update on http://lacanadaflintridge.com:

A voluntary evacuation order has been issued to the area from La
Canada Blvd on the west, Vista Del Valle on the south, Angeles Crest
Highway on the south, Starlight Crest Drive on the south,
Greenridge Dr. on the east, and all this area to the north; a reverse
911 message has been send to residents in this area; the evacuation
location is La Canada High School

I know they're using air support in Rancho Palos Verdes. I've heard aircraft overhead all day, but not tonight locally.

How can you guys be out looking at the fire? The smoke has been bothering me too much to be out.

I now know why CA. is always broke. It's expensive to keep fighting so many fires on a monthly basis.

ONLY if structures are in danger. They stopped our water drops but my cousin says they will resume IF it threatens any homes. It's very dangerous to do that at night in the mountains.

• A voluntary evacuation order has been issued to the area from
La Canada Blvd on the west, Vista Del Valle on the south,
Angeles Crest Highway on the south, Starlight Crest Drive on
the south, Greenridge Dr. on the east, and all this area to the
north