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Wildfire threatens Los Angeles
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Updated: 2009-08-30 14:09

Wildfire threatens Los Angeles
A motorcycle burns during the Station Fire in the Big Tujunga area of Los Angeles, California August 29, 2009. [Agencies] 

LOS ANGELES: A raging wildfire rocketed across 20,000 acres (8,100 hectares) on the northern hills of Los Angeles, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate their homes on Saturday, authorities said.

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Residents in the northernmost reaches of the hills were ordered to get out of their homes Saturday afternoon, as the mandatory evacuation zone reached the eastern city limits of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.

In the burning mountains, one person was severely burned when power-lines fell on a ranger station in a canyon. The victim was helicoptered out of the freshly-evacuated canyon, home to 75 cabins and numerous group campgrounds.

A 7600-meter-high cloud of smoke and water vapor towering over the northern side of Los Angeles could be spotted by weather radar screens as far away as San Diego, 80 miles (128 kms) south of Los Angeles.

Firetrucks were stationed below the fire, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Pasadena, and above it, at the hundreds of broadcast and communications relay facilities lining a threatened ridge top culminating at Mount Wilson.

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