(Originally published at 8:20 a.m. PST, January 16, 2014). (UPDATE at 10 a.m. PST, January 18, 2014). The Incident Management Team has revised the mapped size of the Colby Fire to 1,863 acres, and they are calling it 30
A fast-moving wildfire in the hills above Glendora burned at least 1,700 acres of withered brush and five homes Thursday, and sent a smoky pall over much of the Los Angeles Basin — the likely harbinger of a rare winter fire season sparked by the
The Colby fire is threatening the residential community of Glendora in the San Gabriel Valley, just 25 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered as unseasonably warm weather, a year of dry conditions and the
Glendora residents whose homes were destroyed or damaged in the Colby Fire returned to their properties Friday to survey what was left. “It really brings back flashes of what happened all day yesterday, of watching your
Share Update. Hundreds of firefighters were battling a wildfire Thursday in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Glendora that quickly spread to 1,700 acres, burning homes, injuring three people and forcing evacuations amid a regional fire-weather warning.