{"id":169924,"date":"2025-08-23T19:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169924\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T19:55:23","slug":"lightning-fires-spark-in-angeles-national-forest-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169924\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning fires spark in Angeles National Forest \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefighters in Angeles National Forest responded to at least five small wildfires sparked Saturday by thunderstorms in the region as extreme heat elevated fire danger in Southern California.<\/p>\n

The small fires in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles burned on a day of red flag warnings that were set to expire Saturday night. An extreme heat warning<\/a> remains in effect through Sunday.<\/p>\n

Firefighters responded to two small lightning fires Saturday morning southwest of Littlerock, near the area of Mount Emma Road<\/a> and 47th Street, according to Angeles National Forest officials. Another fire<\/a> was reported in the mountains to the southeast, just west of Wrightwood near Table Mountain.<\/p>\n

Lighting fires also popped up near Sunset Peak west of Mount Baldy Road<\/a> and the area of Old Ridge Route south of Pine Canyon<\/a> and State Route 138.<\/p>\n

There were not reports of structures damaged or threatened.<\/p>\n

More thunderstorms are possible Saturday, especially in the high desert and mountains.<\/p>\n

“We’ll see that moisture coming in from the southeast through next Tuesday, so we do have that thunderstorm chance through the day,” said NBC4\/T52 meteorologist\u00a0Marcos Mora<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A red flag warning of critical fire danger took effect at 9 a.m. Wednesday and will remain in place through 9 p.m. Saturday in the Santa Clarita Valley, San Gabriel Mountains, Antelope Valley foothills and the Golden State (5) and Antelope Valley (14) freeway corridors.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Fire Department said it is monitoring the forecast and making necessary preparations to meet emergency demands during the heat wave. LAFD added Crew 4, which is a team made up of 26 specially trained personnel who will respond to wildfires within and around the city.<\/p>\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state had pre-deployed firefighting resources to Los Angeles County — totaling 10 fire engines, two water tenders, two bulldozers, one helicopter, two hand crews, thee dispatchers and one Incident Management Team. <\/p>\n

Widespread strong winds are not part of the forecast, but the extreme heat and dry brush are enough to raise the risk of fast-moving flames. Breezy conditions are possible in foothill areas and mountains.<\/p>\n

Ariel Cohen, of the National Weather Service, said heat events like this are rare, happening about once every two to four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters in Angeles National Forest responded to at least five small wildfires sparked Saturday by thunderstorms in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2809,2961,224,5337,5609],"class_list":{"0":"post-169924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-wildfires","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-wildfires"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115079841373018216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169924","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=169924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}