{"id":129249,"date":"2025-08-08T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129249\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:22:11","slug":"canyon-fire-north-of-la-intensifies-as-nearby-communities-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129249\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyon Fire north of LA intensifies as nearby communities evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"

A day after the Canyon Fire ignited in Ventura County, it has torched nearly 5,000 acres of land and triggered evacuation orders.<\/p>\n

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California wildfire prompts evacuations as wildfires burn in the West<\/p>\n

The Canyon Fire in Ventura County, California, grew over 1,000 acres in just a few hours prompting evactuaions.<\/p>\n

Firefighters north of Los Angeles were working Friday, Aug. 8, to gain control of a wildfire that sparked a day earlier<\/a> and quickly exploded in size, triggering multiple rounds of evacuations as flames neared several communities.<\/p>\n

The Canyon Fire<\/a> was first reported around 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 7 in a mountaineous area near Lake Piru, a resevior located about 50 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The blaze soon threatened ranches and other nearby properties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fueled by dry conditions, high heat and strong winds, the fire has since torched 4,856 acres of land in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, according to Cal Fire<\/a>, the state’s firefighting agency. The cause of the blaze remains unclear and so far no structures have been reported damaged.<\/p>\n

The fire was last pushing toward power lines and the communities of Hasley Canyon, Hathaway Ranch and Val Verde, according to a late night update from fire officials.<\/p>\n

Multiple helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, including several\u00a0air tankers, dropped<\/a>\u00a0water and retardant on the flames throughout the afternoon. Officials also requested additional firefighters, including hand crews, engines and bulldozers, Andrew Dowd, a spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department, told the Ventura County Star<\/a>, part of the USA TODAY Network.<\/p>\n

“Firefighters are working incredibly hard through steep terrain in hot weather with very dry fuels,” he said.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t the only dangerous blaze that led to evacuations in California. The Gifford Fire burning in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties<\/a> has consumed 155 square miles of land, making it the largest wildfire the state has seen this year. The blaze, which is 15% contained, threatens over 800 structures and has injured three people, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after the Canyon Fire ignited in Ventura County, it has torched nearly 5,000 acres of land…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2696,2701,4231,1582,276,2809,3059,3040,2693,2697,3534,8750,3537,5025,63554,6526,2961,425,728,4230,224,5337,644,663,2698,2702,938,50,449,4995,5677,645,448,447,456,646,11331,78885,78883,33077,78884,5609],"class_list":{"0":"post-129249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-accidents","9":"tag-accidents-u0026-disasters","10":"tag-angeles","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-california-wildfires","14":"tag-county","15":"tag-department","16":"tag-disaster","17":"tag-disasters","18":"tag-emergency","19":"tag-emergency-services","20":"tag-evacuation","21":"tag-fire","22":"tag-fire-u0026-security-services","23":"tag-firefighters","24":"tag-la","25":"tag-local","26":"tag-local-news","27":"tag-los","28":"tag-los-angeles","29":"tag-losangeles","30":"tag-modular","31":"tag-modular-story","32":"tag-natural","33":"tag-natural-disaster","34":"tag-network","35":"tag-news","36":"tag-point","37":"tag-security","38":"tag-services","39":"tag-story","40":"tag-the","41":"tag-to","42":"tag-to-the-point","43":"tag-u0026","44":"tag-usat","45":"tag-usat-network","46":"tag-ventura","47":"tag-ventura-county","48":"tag-ventura-county-fire-department","49":"tag-wildfires"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}