Gusty north to northeast winds pushed the fire toward Interstate 5 and Ventura County. By Thursday morning, the fire was 14% contained and thousands of firefighters were assigned to the blaze.

in Ventura, California, USA, @VCFD_PIO shared a video of firefighters working tirelessly to contain the Laguna Fire in the mountain area. Nearly 200 firefighters remain on the scene, mopping up ...

Update: As of 8:45 a.m. Friday, authorities lifted an evacuation warning for the CSU Channel Islands campus and adjacent University Glen residential area. A fast-moving brush fire broke out near ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

Tens of thousands of residents remain under evacuation orders and warnings Thursday morning as firefighters continue to battle for containment on the Hughes Fire ... A portion of Ventura County ...

Evacuations were ordered on the Cal State Channel Islands campus Thursday morning when a brush fire broke out in the Camarillo area in Ventura County. Firefighters and water-dropping aircraft ...

"There is a chance that this fire will make it into Ventura County, and this is not a good place to have a fire under northeast winds, because there is an almost contiguous, very dense fuel bed ...

The Hughes fire started off Lake Hughes Road just before 11 a.m. and quickly prompted evacuations orders in and around Castaic Lake, which by afternoon extended toward Ventura County to the west ...

WITH MORE ON HOW THE WEATHER FORECAST CAN IMPACT FIRE CONTAINMENT ... SANTA ANA WINDS HAVE RETURNED TO LA/VENTURA COUNTIES AND EXPECTED TO REALLY KICK INTO GEAR LATER TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY.

It looks like a smoke bomb went off." Smoke from the fire caused "worsening air quality" forcing Ventura College to close, while Los Angeles Zoo shut its doors over "Red Flag" weather conditions.

The Hughes fire ignited earlier in the day north of Castaic and by evening had grown to more than 9,000 acres, forcing the evacuation of about 31,000 people. On Lake Hughes Road, wooden piles ...