Firefighters were scrambling to battle the Saddleridge Fire after it grew to 7,542 acres on Friday and was only 13% contained, officials with the Los Angeles Fire Department said
Minutes after the Saddleridge Fire reached the backyard, Andro Mammo drove his siblings away from the flames behind their northern Los Angeles home as fast as he could.
"When I looked out in my backyard I saw flames and I saw how close it was, and my number one instinct wasn't to grab clothes or anything but it was to get my little brother and my little sister," Mammo recalled. The wind-driven wildfire has forced tens of thousands of people like Mammo's family to evacuate, closed portions of at least three major freeways and damaged dozens of homes.
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