Another large wildfire has ignited just north of Los Angeles in California, as firefighters continue to battle the blaze.
The Hughes Fire, as it is known, broke out in the late morning local time on Wednesday, about 64 kilometres from the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires that are now burning for a third week.
Evacuations were ordered shortly after the fire began, to over 31,000 people with another 23,000 under evacuation warnings.
4000 firefighters have been battling the large fire that had covered almost 2000 hectares in 2 hours and by late afternoon had swept across 3,277 hectares of land.
High winds and continued dry conditions have been fuelling the fire, however, a rapid ground and air effort from the LA Fire Department was proving successful.
"The fire remains a difficult fire to contain, although we are getting the upper hand," Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone.
By 2 pm local time on Thursday, the fire was reported to be 24% contained, according to the Angeles National Forest.
"The situation that we're in today is very different from the situation we were in 16 days ago," said Marrone.
The effort to contain this blaze has been a stark contrast to the nearby Eaton Fire, which started on 7 January and still only was 95% contained on Thursday.
The fire tore through 5665 hectares of land and destroyed 9,400 structures.
Similarly, the Palisades Fire which sparked in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood has scorched over 9470 hectares of land and is still only 70% contained.
Both fires have a devastating combined death toll of 25.
So far there have been no homes, structures or lives lost to the Hughes fire.
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