Faced with the advance of the “Mountain fire”, a fire which has already consumed nearly 8,100 hectares since Wednesday, thousands of people have been invited to evacuate in the hills of the northwest of the Los Angeles region, in California .
Californian authorities asked thousands of people to evacuate Thursday, November 7, in the face of a large fire that continues to worsen in the hills of the northwest of the Los Angeles region. The Mountain Fire broke out near the town of Camarillo on Wednesday.
Its cause is still unknown, but the flames spread quickly thanks to powerful winds, with gusts of up to 130 km/h.
It threatens more than 3,500 homes and has already consumed nearly 8,100 hectares.
“We stayed up all night watching what was happening. I didn’t sleep,” Erica Preciado told local television station KTLA as she evacuated her family.
“We’re just trying to get shelter. I didn’t even know what to take. I just put everything I could in my car,” she added, on the verge of tears.
Authorities are currently trying to assess the number of homes destroyed. According to local media present on site, there are dozens of them and could even reach a hundred.
“Everything is gone,” said a man with a broken voice on KTLA, who lost his home where he had lived for 27 years.
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Ventura County fire officials said they are devoting all their resources to the fire.
With AFP
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