A brush fire in a suburban community north of Los Angeles was “spreading dangerously fast” and threatening homes Monday afternoon amid windy conditions, fire officials said. (Shutterstock)
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A brush fire in a suburban community north of Los Angeles was “spreading dangerously fast” and threatening homes Monday afternoon amid windy conditions, fire officials said.
The fire in Simi Valley, California, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, began at 10:50 a.m. and had grown to 184 acres within 30 minutes, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Officials issued mandatory evacuation orders for a large swath of Simi Valley and warnings for parts of neighboring Thousand Oaks. Just after noon Monday, 23,825 people were under mandatory evacuation orders and 13,115 under warnings, according to a New York Times estimate of the population in the evacuation zones.
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This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
By Soumya Karlamangla
c. 2026 The New York Times Company
