Dana Dierkes, public affairs officer for the Angeles National Forest, said firefighters were responding to the incident off Lake Hughes Road, north of Castaic Reservoir Road in Castaic. There is ...

Named the Hughes fire, the blaze was reported just after 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, in the area of Lake Hughes Road and the 5 Freeway and close to Castaic Lake, according to Cal Fire.

HughesFire has been identified at Lake Hughes Road, North of the Castaic Reservoir. "They're going to take advantage of this time," said NBCLA fire and safety expert Chief Sam DiGiovanni of the ...

A day earlier, the blaze was first reported around 10:45 a.m. near Castaic Lake, off Lake Hughes Road just north of Castaic Reservoir Road, spreading to 500 acres within an hour and continuing to ...

A number of schools were under evacuation orders shortly after 11:30 a.m. after a brush fire broke out less than two hours ago near Castaic Lake in the town of Castaic, just outside of the northern ...

The Hughes Fire in the Lake Castaic area has now burned more than 10,000 acres and is 14% contained, as more than 30,000 residents have been evacuated and thousands more under evacuation warnings.

The good news is that the lake went up 4% after rain storms arrived last week, according to the park. A 13-mile drive north of Santa Clarita, Castaic Lake, is faring better than Millerton.

The Hughes Fire broke out in the late morning and within hours charred more than 15 square miles of trees and brush, sending up plumes of dark smoke near Lake Castaic, a popular recreation area ...

Evacuations were ordered Wednesday after a brush fire started in the hills near Castaic north of Los Angeles on a day of red flag warnings for parts of Southern California. The Hughes Fire in ...