Hughes Fire, latest horrific wildfire to explode in LA area, forces more than 30K to evacuate, torches over 10K acres after ‘nuclear’ prediction

A terrifying fast-moving new wildfire burning out of control north of Los Angeles quickly torched nearly 10,000 acres Wednesday, with more than 30,000 people ordered to evacuate just weeks after dangerous winds caused deadly infernos to erupt across Southern California.

The blaze, called the Hughes Fire, broke out before 11 a.m. just north of the town of Castaic — about 40 miles from the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires — as a 50-acre fire and exploded to about 10,176 acres by evening, according to Los Angeles Fire Chief Anthony Marrone.

About 31,000 people were ordered to evacuate and another 23,000 people are in areas where evacuation warnings were issued, according to the LA County Sheriff’s Department.

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No structures have been reported damaged or destroyed, fire officials said, with about 4,000 firefighters responding to the blaze.

Maronne said personnel will be on-scene for the remainder of the night into Thursday morning to contain hot spots.

“Do not drive into these areas,” Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna said.

“You are impacting the ingress and egress of emergency vehicles, and we don’t need more traffic. We want less traffic. We don’t want you walking around in the impacted areas to impact the community members who live here.”

Luna also encouraged residents to stay out of evacuated zones, with the department providing additional manpower to protect homes.

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