Riverside County fire officials said mandatory evacuations had been ordered at and around the Villa Calimesa Mobile Home Park in Calimesa, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES — A rapidly growing wildfire fire destroyed numerous structures and injured an unknown number of people at a mobile home park east of Los Angeles on Thursday as power companies began expanding fire-prevention blackouts to the southern part of the state.
The Sandalwood Fire, which was first reported at about 2 p.m. and more than tripled in size to about 500 acres in less than a half-hour, destroyed multiple structures and caused"numerous medical emergencies," the Riverside County Fire Department said. The agency said the fire was at 0 percent containment.
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