More than 600 firefighters are now involved in trying to control a California wildfire that broke out Wednesday afternoon. It quickly grew to over a 70,000-acre area by midday Friday.
The fire is impacting a mostly rural area, about 110 miles northwest of Los Angeles. But as of Friday, smoke from the expanding fire was beginning to affect air quality in Los Angeles.
Local TV station KTLA 5 reported it is now the largest wildfire in the state so far this year and the smoke is beginning to affect millions of people throughout Southern California. The federal Bureau of Land Management on Thursday ordered the “emergency closure of all Carrizo Plain National Monument lands.” People were told to “Stay out for your safety and to avoid interfering with firefighting.”
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