Truemors
Driven by winds, a wildfire near Pasadena, California, is moving closer towards homes as residents are evacuated.
Update: A new round of evacuations has begun as the Sierra Madre fire: three hundred homes have now been evacuated.
No homes were damaged, though a small outbuilding used for storing firefighting equipment was destroyed, Weaver said.
Weaver said more than 400 firefighters were attacking the 350-acre fire, aided by two helicopters with two water-dropping air tankers on the way. The fire was 5 percent contained and was expected to burn for another two or three days.
"This is pretty serious," Weaver said. "Some of these areas have not burned in over 40 years."
The cause of the blaze remained under investigation.
Firefighters originally had hoped to have the blaze contained Sunday, but gusting winds late Saturday night kept the fire burning out of control and creeping toward nearby homes, said Elisa Weaver of the Arcadia Fire Department.
The mandatory evacuation order came shortly before 11 p.m. The fire broke out on a hot, dry Saturday afternoon about 10 miles northeast of Pasadena, Weaver said.
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