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I was taking a little nap. and the world here was peaceful.

And I woke up from the nap a half hour later, and there was a major fire that had spread incredibly

quickly in the Castaic area.

Michael Monks from KFI News is tracking it.

What's going on?

This was fast, and it's big.

So fast, it has, it's reminiscent of two weeks ago how quickly this thing blew up because this started just after 11 o'clock this morning in the area around Lake Castaic and the original reports as we were watching it was this is about 40 or 50 acres, which is of great concern because we know of the wind conditions that we're dealing with, the red flag conditions we're dealing with, and that it could move fast and that it did.

Within 90 minutes, it has exploded to 3,400 acres.

There are evacuation warnings around Lake Castaic, excuse me, mandatory evacuations around Lake Castaic and evacuation warnings even farther out. They've already got an evacuation

center open at Valencia High School on Dixon Drive. So you can see even from our TV friends

that there are people in neighborhoods near there. They're packing up. I think the hard lessons

learned in Altadena and the Palisade shows how quickly your life can be upended by one of these things.

So people are packing up things that are important to them, things that mean something

sentimentally to them, and they're getting out of the way. These flames are crazy looking.

Yeah, I've heard we got, I think you were telling me that one of our listeners said, like there's

only one way in, one way out of a particular community. We did just get a call from a guy who wanted me to alert the host and our fellow news team members

that he says a lot of the neighborhoods in and around Kasteic basically have one way in

and one way out. So do not clog up the roads. Basically a warning to folks, please don't come to the

area if you do not need to be here.

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