SCV fires: “No containment in sight”

Two fires are burning in Acton and Agua Dulce areas.

ABC7 has a live video feed and update:

As the fire spreads, so does the coverage.  There are 150 Google News-linked stories and the fires are being tracked by the Associated Press.

Our own KHTS has updates every hour or so.  The latest as of 6:15pm:

Both the Briggs and Crown fires have flared and are once again burning out of control, according to LA County Fire officials.

The US Forest Service has requested road closures at Soledad Canyon Road and Crown Valley Roads and Soledad Canyon Road at Agua Dulce Canyon Road due to the fires burning in the area.

The first fire, the Briggs incident, is located near Fire Camp 11 in Acton, at 8344 Soledad Canyon Road. The fire has burned 250 acres and is growing, moving northeast. Inmates assigned to Camp 11 were evacuated shortly after the fire started.

The fire has jumped the canyon and is headed toward the entrance to Indian Canyon Motorway.

Animal rescues The Brittney Foundation, Animal Acres and the Villalobos Pit Bull Rescue are in the process of evacuating their animals and staff. The fire has reached the grounds of the Villalobos Pit Bull Rescue facility and dogs are still on the property. An evacuation center for the dogs has been established in the parking lot of the grocery store at 36220 Anthony Road in Agua Dulce; volunteers are asked to bring crates, blankets, first aid supplies and anything else that might help the evacuees.

The second fire, the Crown incident, is located near the intersection of Sierra Highway and Anthony Road and has burned 500-plus acres and is growing. The fire is moving northwest toward Leona Valley. with the fire moving uphill driven by winds out of the west and no containment is in sight.

According to Fire officials, structures are threatened in both fires.

Pic from ABC7:

From our perch in north Valencia:

UPDATE @ 7:35pm, KHTS:

Mandatory evacuations are being conducted in the Crown Fire area; that fire has burned 700-plus acres and is threatening homes in Quartz Hill and Leona Valley. There are unconfirmed reports that several homes have already burned.

There is also an unconfirmed report that two suspects have been arrested in the area, possible for setting one or more fires.

The Briggs Fire has consumed 250 acres and is burning into the national forest, toward the Station Fire area.

UPDATE @ 9:53pm, KHTS:

Mandatory evacuations are being conducted in the Crown Fire area; that fire has burned 4,500 acres and is threatening homes in Quartz Hill and Leona Valley. There are unconfirmed reports that several structures, some of them possibly homes, have already burned.

There is also an unconfirmed report that two suspects have been arrested in the area, possible for setting one or more fires.

The Briggs Fire has been knocked down.

UPDATE @ 4:52am, KHTS:

The Crown Fire that was reported at 2:22 Thursday in the Acton area continues to burn out of control in the Leona Valley area.

The fire has burned upwards of 5,000 acres and mandatory evacuation orders are still in place in several areas near Elizabeth Lake and north Palmdale. More than 2,000 homes are threatened.

Several structures have been burned in the Crown Fire, however, fire officials did not have a number on how many buildings were destroyed or if any of them were homes. Evacuation centers have been set up at Agua Dulce Elementary School (11311 Frascati Street) and Marie Kerr Park (2730 West Rancho Vista Blvd).