Castaic News

The fire started in Castaic around 1:30 p.m. Friday. Firefighters in the air and on the ground were able to douse the flames closest to Northlake Hills Elementary School.

An L.A. County camp crew starts to get out as flames roar out of a canyon toward them during a brush fire that started along the southbound lanes of the I-5. The LA County Fire Department and the Angeles National Forest Service are fighting the fire that has burned through 600 acres.

Firefighters worked swiftly to steer a 40-acre brushfire away from an elementary school moments before school was set to let out for the day.

The fire near the southbound 5 Freeway and Lake Hughes Road broke out around 1:22 p.m., according to Los Angeles County Fire.

UPDATE: FRAZIER PARK, CA -Kuepper reports that the fire is contained, but traffic is moving very slowly.

A 25-acre wildfire has shut down some northbound lanes of Interstate 5 in Castaic, north of Los Angeles, and is threatening a mobile home park.

A big rig blaze today sparked a brush fire that quickly swallowed up 25 acres in the vicinity of the Golden State Freeway at Templin Highway and was threatening a nearby mobile home park, authorities said.

It was a weekend to remember for nearly 50 male inmates at a Southland detention center after spending some quality time with their little ones.

Anglers are carting home ice chests full of one-pound tilapia, and there have been more of the better quality fish over the past week.