Crime & Safety

Red-Flag Warnings Expire, Leave Brush Fires in Their Wakes

Fires big and small stretched all across the Southland.

Red-flag warnings for dangerous “fire weather” have officially expired for Orange, San Diego and Riverside counties but left a slew of brush fires in their wake.

The National Weather Service had issued red-flag warnings for much of the Southland because of very low relative humidity coupled with locally gusty winds.

By 6 p.m., the winds had died off enough to expire the warnings, in place since 6 Friday morning.

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The weekend, however, was not without incident.

  • On Camp Pendleton, 2,500 acres burned, forced evacuations of residents and even a hospital. A base spokesman posted at 9 p.m. on Facebook that the fire was 20 percent contained.
  • In Santiago Canyon, Orange County, more than 120 firefighters “aggressively” worked Sunday to extinguish a brusher. By midnight, about 50 acres had burned, and the blaze was 25 percent contained.

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