Los Angeles County’s First Big Wildfire of 2024 Rages Mostly Uncontained

Fire crews are working to contain a north Los Angeles County blaze initially reported as a brush fire of less than a square mile that by the afternoon of June 17 had increased to engulf 24 square miles. “We have well over 1,100 firefighting personnel both on the ground and in the air fighting this coordinated attack by a bunch of different agencies,” Craig Little, spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, told The Epoch Times. “It’s really an impressive thing to see with both the land attack and air attack.” When the Post fire was first reported Saturday afternoon, at least 1,200 hikers and campers from the Hungry Valley recreation area near Gorman, California, were evacuated. So far, one person has been injured, multiple cars destroyed, and a commercial building that appears to be an auto body shop has been damaged, according to Mr. Little....