Thursday, May 2, 2013

Winds spur new wildfires near Calif. homes

Rincon Valley fire captain Fred Leunberger watches as a pine tree torches out on the head of the Yellow fire above Knights Valley, Calif., Wednesday, May 1, 2013. The fire started early Wednesday morning on the rugged border between Napa and Sonoma Counties and roared through tall stands of pine trees. Crews were securing the perimeter of the fire in the afternoon. (AP Photo/Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Kent Porter)

Rincon Valley fire captain Fred Leunberger watches as a pine tree torches out on the head of the Yellow fire above Knights Valley, Calif., Wednesday, May 1, 2013. The fire started early Wednesday morning on the rugged border between Napa and Sonoma Counties and roared through tall stands of pine trees. Crews were securing the perimeter of the fire in the afternoon. (AP Photo/Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Kent Porter)

A firefighter puts out the remaining hot spots in the one building that has burned as a result of a brush fire burning in the hills above Banning, Calif., on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, Terry Pierson)

A resident carries a bucket of water to help fight the brush fire burning right up to his property in the hills above Banning, Calif., on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, Terry Pierson)

Flames scorch the hillside north of Banning, Calif., as a brush fire burns in the area Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, Terry Pierson)

Rincon Valley firefighter Nate DeJung keeps check on the head of the Yellow fire above Knights Valley, Calif., Wednesday May 1, 2013. The fire started early Wednesday morning on the rugged border between Napa and Sonoma Counties and roared through tall stands of pine trees. Crews were securing the perimeter of the fire in the afternoon. (AP Photo/Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Kent Porter)

(AP) ? Authorities have ordered evacuations of a neighborhood and a university about 50 miles west of Los Angeles where a wildfire is raging close to subdivisions.

The blaze on the fringes of Camarillo and Thousand Oaks broke out Thursday morning and was quickly spread by gusty Santa Ana winds. Evacuation orders include California State University, Channel Islands.

About 100 miles to the east, four residences have burned in a grass fire that has prompted the evacuation of an elementary school in Jurupa Valley.

Other fires are burning around the state with various degrees of containment.

Associated Press

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