Another day has brought another dangerous fire to California.
A new fire sprung up in Southern California on Wednesday morning, quickly burning through 972 acres and putting 6,500 homes at risk in Simi Valley, just outside Thousand Oaks. That area, which is under a mandatory evacuation, includes the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, where flames from the so-called Easy Fire could be seen flickering from the nearby hillside.
The Easy Fire is just about 20 miles from the Getty Fire in Los Angeles, named for the nearby Getty Center. That museum has been deemed safe, but the Getty Fire's breakout on Monday still forced a mandatory evacuation of more than 7,000 homes. The Getty Fire is just 27 percent contained as of Wednesday morning, and a mandatory evacuation is still in place as 12 homes have been destroyed, per the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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