The Scary Thing About the Wildfire That Was Stopped
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Environment
The Palisades and Eaton blazes were deadlier, but the fast-moving Hughes Fire, which threatened new homes in a Los Angeles exurb, could be a preview of future disasters.
When Bob Lewis first heard about the wildfire spreading near his hometown of Castaic, California, on Jan. 22, his initial reaction was, 'what fire?'
The president of the town council for the hilly and windswept unincorporated community, Lewis was in his car on the 136 Freeway heading home from Ventura when he got a call from emergency management officials around midday, telling him that they were closing down a freeway off-ramp: What would become the Hughes Fire had ignited a little more than seven miles from Castaic.
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