Wildfires - California
Mandatory evacuations were underway Friday evening in Orange County as a rapidly moving brush fire has burned more than 1,300 acres in the hills of the Cleveland National Forest.
About 30 homes are being evacuated. The brush fire is being fueled by tinder-dry vegetation and is in steep, hard-to-reach terrain.
Firefighters were being aided by water-dropping aircraft as they tried to hold back flames atop ridgelines near Corona.
A Northern California wildfire started by a lightning strike a month ago has burned more than 108,000 acres in the drought-stricken state, officials said on Friday.
The fire in the Klamath National Forest started when lightning struck the Happy Camp area on Aug. 11. It was 45 percent contained on Friday.
The blaze formed a large ring and grew by 882 acres on Thursday night, said Klamath National Forest spokeswoman Andrea Capps, and it is expected to continue to grow along the ring's southern perimeter through Friday.
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