The 20-acre fire was burning on the Sepulveda Pass near Interstate 405, the Getty Museum and the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Jan. 23, 2025Updated 4:18 a.m. ET
Fire crews were making progress on a 20-acre brush fire that was spreading early Thursday morning in Los Angeles near Interstate 405, the Getty Museum and Bel-Air.
The Los Angeles Fire Department issued an evacuation warning after the blaze broke out late Wednesday night, saying that it was burning on the Sepulveda Pass.
“Air support and other aggressive actions have been deployed to fight a new fire just east of the 405,” Karen Bass, Los Angeles’s mayor, wrote on social media.
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