Fire officials are battling a wildfire fueled by gusty Santa Ana winds that's ripping through rural land southeast of Los Angeles, forcing about 4,000 people from their homes. The so-called Highland Fire erupted at about 12:45 p.m. Monday in dry, brushy hills near the unincorporated Riverside County hamlet of Aguanga.
AGUANGA, Calif. — A wildfire fueled by gusty Santa Ana winds ripped through rural land southeast of Los Angeles on Monday, forcing about 4,000 people from their homes, fire authorities said.
As of late Monday night, it had spread over about 2 square miles of land, fire spokesman Jeff LaRusso said.Hawaii agrees to hand over site to Maui County for wildfire landfill and memorialThe fire had destroyed three buildings and damaged six others but it wasn’t clear whether any were homes. The region is sparsely populated but there are horse ranches and a large mobile home site, LaRusso said.
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