Brush Fire Closes 5 Freeway North of Los Angeles, Grows to Over 4,000 Acres

Mandatory evacuations on as many as 200 homes were ordered as the 4,625-acre Route Fire burned near Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles on a day of extreme late-summer heat in Southern California.

Brush Fire Closes 5 Freeway North of Los Angeles, Grows to Over 4,000 Acres

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