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CRESTLINE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on California wildfires (all times local):
8 p.m.
Hundreds of homes are under evacuation orders and thousands are threatened by a surging wildfire in the San Bernardino Mountains near Hesperia.
San Bernardino County sheriff's officials and the U.S. Forest Service tell the Los Angeles Times that 375 homes were under mandatory evacuation orders on Monday night.
Authorities say about 5,000 more are under voluntary evacuation orders.
No homes have yet burned and no one has been injured by the blaze that broke out on Sunday.
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5:15 p.m.
Dozens of homes have now been ordered evacuated from a growing wildfire in the mountains of Southern California.
Mandatory evacuations have been called for at least 25 homes because of the 7-square-mile blaze in the San Bernardino National Forest.
More than 5,000 homes are under voluntarily evacuation advisories because of the fire.
The blaze broke out Sunday above the high-desert city of Hesperia. That's about 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
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9:50 a.m.
Smoke from a growing wildfire in the mountains of Southern California is casting a hazy pall in Las Vegas, more than 200 miles away.
County officials in southern Nevada on Monday issued an air quality advisory due to smoke from the 7-square-mile blaze in the San Bernardino National Forest.
Fire officials estimated containment at just 5 percent on the wildfire that erupted shortly after noon Sunday in the San Bernardino Mountains above the high-desert city of Hesperia. That's about 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
The air advisory is in effect in southern Nevada through Tuesday.
The Clark County Department of Air Quality says air is unhealthy for sensitive groups, including young children, senior citizens people and with respiratory problems and cardiac disease.
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8:15 a.m.
A wildfire in the San Bernardino National Forest east of Los Angeles has tripled in size to 7 square miles.
The blaze in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Silverwood Lake and south of the high desert city of Hesperia grew from 1,500 acres on Sunday to 4,500 acres early Monday. Containment is estimated at just 5 percent.
Some 400 firefighters are working the blaze and more have been ordered.
The fire erupted shortly after noon Sunday. The cause is unknown.
Among other fires in California, the 18-day-old blaze near Big Sur has burned nearly 90 square miles and is 45 percent contained.
More than 5,000 firefighters are on the lines of the fire, which was ignited by an illegal campfire and has destroyed 57 homes and damaged three others.
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