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A fire in Southern California, which spread to more than 1,700 acres, prompted mandatory evacuations Monday night as at least one structure was damaged or destroyed, -Corona Fire- according to the Orange County Fire Authority.
The wildfire -- called Canyon Fire -- started Monday around 1 p.m., near the 91 freeway and near the border between the cities of Anaheim and Corona.
The Corona Fire Department on Monday night tweeted that the fire was up to 2,000 acres and 5% contained.
As of 9 p.m. local time, the Orange County Fire Authority -Corona Fire- reported no injuries and that multiple structures were threatened in Corona. Four schools in Corona will be closed Tuesday due to the fire, evacuations, road closures and poor air quality, according to the Corona Norco Unified School District.
Mandatory evacuations went into effect for parts of - Corona Fire - and the announcement from the loud speaker of a police car blared: "It's time to go," as shown by CNN affiliate KCBS.
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A large wildfire that ripped through a canyon in Southern California on Monday has forced the evacuation of as many as 1,500 residents living around the Santa Ana Mountains near Anaheim.
The Canyon Fire, as authorities are calling it, has consumed 2,000 acres of vegetation and is only 5 percent contained, according to the Corona, California, fire department. Helicopters and other aircraft dropped water on the fire all through Monday and the night. Crews used bulldozers and cleared vegetation by hand to try to halt the fire’s Canyon Fire advance as gusts of up to 30 miles per hour whipped the flames and shifted the direction of their advance. Authorities reported that only one home was damaged, and they have not reported any injuries.
The fire started at about 1 p.m. Monday, according to the Los Angeles Times, and it spread into Chino Hills State Park a couple hours later. The authorities haven’t yet said Canyon Fire what first sparked the fire.
Four schools have been closed, and residents were told to shelter in the local high school athletics field house. Closed roads caused halted traffic in the area.
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CORONA, CALIF.
A wildfire in Southern California had surged Southern California wildfire
to more than two Canyon Fire square miles Monday night, forcing the evacuation of about 1,000 people from suburban canyon homes and spurring the shutdown of two lanes of a major freeway.
The blaze began about 1 p.m. in Corona along the Canyon Fire Riverside and Orange county lines, where two eastbound lanes of State Route 91 were closed and commuters were facing serious traffic backups.
Corona fire officials have called for evacuations of about 1,000 residents of an estimated 300 homes. The blaze is also burning into Canyon Fire the cities of Anaheim and Chino Hills, authorities said.
Intense flames could be seen creeping down hills and burning at the edges of several neighborhoods where ashes were raining down. There were no immediate reports of damage to homes.
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Cora Angeles, 66, prayed and cried as she sat in a park car after frantically fleeing from the flames that raged toward her home. She was able to leave with only important documents, clothes and her 12-year-old granddaughter.
"We don't know what's going to happen," Angeles told the Los Angeles Times. "At least we know we're going to be alive."
Aerial shots from news helicopters showed a large Canyon Fire building that looked like a warehouse that was fully engulfed in flames, Southern California wildfire but it wasn't immediately clear what it was.
A huge plume of smoke could be seen over much of Orange County, including Angel Stadium in Anaheim, where a large crowd was watching the Angels play the Chicago White Sox.
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