The evacuation orders were built on Friday night in parts of southern California, since firefighters fighting the cannon fire made the progress domesticating the fire. The fire has burned approximately 5,400 acres and is currently contained in 28%, according to the California Forestry and Fire Protection Department (Fire Cal).
Evacuation orders, which affected thousands of residents in Ventura County and Los Angeles County, were degraded to warnings, which means that there is still a potential threat to life and property.
The Canyon fire is burning in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles and has spread to the Castaic community in Los Angeles County.
Ventura County officials said Friday that firefighters were doing “good progress in the suppression of the fire, helped by favorable climatic conditions and the continuous use of aircraft extinction that manufacture repeated water and retarders falls to curb fire and soil support equipment.”
Even so, the fire remains an active threat and continues to spread more to the east in Los Angeles County.
In an update published on Friday in X, the Fire Department of the County said that three firefighters suffered minor injuries while fighting the fire and were taken to a local hospital “by caution”, but they were expected to recover completely.
The District of Air Quality Management of the South Coast issued notices of smoke from forest fires for parts of the Los Angeles County, particularly along the I-5 corridor near Lake Castaic. Air quality problems are expected to remain until Sunday morning, according to the agency, which monitors air quality conditions for much of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
The smoke air pollution of forest fires is a significant concern because it contains small particles that are less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, about 4% of the diameter of an average human hair thread. This type of air pollution is dangerous because the particles are small enough to reach the inside of the lungs, which can exacerbate or increase the risk of asthma, lung cancer and other chronic pulmonary diseases.
The Canyon fire went on Thursday afternoon near Holster Canyon and extended rapidly, wrapping more than 1,500 acres in several hours.
The Blaze is one of several large fires that are currently burning in California, including the huge Gifford fire that turned on August 1 in the National Fathers Forest. That fire has consumed more than 100,000 acres and remains only 21% content, according to Cal Fire.
