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3 Arrested in Los Angeles Wildfire, Police Say - New York Times

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U.S. |3 Arrested in Los Angeles Wildfire, Police Say



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Typically, Southern California wildfire season ends by January. But with little rain this winter, fire officials here predicted that the threat of fires might not be over yet. Jae C. Hong/Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A fast-moving brush fire that erupted Thursday morning quickly burned at least 1,700 acres northeast of downtown Los Angeles, county fire officials said.


The police in Glendora said three men had been arrested in connection with the Colby Fire, which broke out just before 6 a.m. in the Angeles National Forest, about 25 miles northeast of downtown.


The chief of Glendora police, Tim Staab, said at a news conference that the three men had reportedly been camping in the forest, and that at least one man told detectives that they had been tossing pieces of paper into a campfire when a breeze kicked up and nearby brush caught fire.


“He was apologetic,” the chief said of the man.


The police identified the three men under arrest as Clifford Eugene Henry, 22; Jonathan Carl Jarrell, 23; and Steven Robert Aguirre, 21; they were charged with recklessly starting a fire and being held on $20,000 bail. Mr. Aguirre told officers that he was homeless, the police said.


Chief Staab said the three men were cooperating with the police, but did not say which one discussed the incident.


One person was injured in the fire, two houses were destroyed and at least 880 homes were evacuated from Glendora and Azusa, officials said.


Typically, Southern California wildfire season ends by January. But with little rain this winter, fire officials here predicted that the threat of fires might not be over yet, and red flag warnings had been in effect all week.


Mr. Staab said the foothills around Glendora had not burned significantly since the 1960s, leaving the area with plenty of dry brush. Once the brush in the Angeles National Forest caught, winds of about 20 miles an hour pushed the flames toward houses in Glendora.


About 700 firefighters and emergency personnel and 92 engines were working to contain the fire, which was at zero percent containment Thursday morning. In addition, eight helicopters, eight air tankers and two “super scoopers” were also fighting the blaze from the air.


A huge cloud of smoke and ash hung over parts of eastern Los Angeles County, and the department of public health issued air quality warnings.


“This morning at about 6 o’clock, it looked pretty terrible out there,” said Joseph A. Santoro, the mayor of Glendora, a city of about 50,000 people. “It was moving pretty fast.”


He said he believed the firefighters’ efforts had “saved a lot of houses.”












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