Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,448 acres after being active for 17 days. A crew of 2,420 firefighters has been working on site and they managed to contain 77% of the fire by Friday morning. The blaze's cause remains under investigation.

The Hughes Fire has spread over 8,096 acres after starting just before lunchtime in Los Angeles County's Castaic Lake area on Wednesday.

A new wildfire was reported today at 9:32 a.m. in Los Angeles County. Don Fire has been burning on private land. At this time, the containment status is unknown and the cause of the fire remains undetermined.

Firefighters made progress on the more than 10,000-acre Hughes Fire Friday, which sent thousands fleeing after sparking near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic a day earlier.

A brush fire near Los Angeles County's Castaic community has spread to over 5,000 acres. A mandatory evacuation order in the surrounding areas is now in place. The latest blaze to hit the county has been named the Hughes Fire and it is spreading rapidly in the region located northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

A new air quality alert has been issued for Los Angeles County until 7 p.m. local time "due to harmful particle pollution levels from windblown dust and ash." This pollution can embed deep into the lungs and cause health problems including heart disease symptoms,

The Hughes fire about 50 miles north of Los Angeles further taxed firefighters in the region who have managed to bring two major fires in the metropolitan area largely under control.

The fire threat remains critical in Southern California, where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders Wednesday as fire crews battled the out-of-control Hughes Fire near Castaic, a suburb in the foothills and mountains of northern Los Angeles County.