(Reuters) - A rapidly growing wildfire in the foothills north of Los Angeles threatened hundreds of homes on Tuesday, forcing nearby residents to evacuate after causing at least one death and power outages throughout the area, officials said. Some 1,000 households in Ventura County, California, about 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles, were told to leave as the 10,000-acre wildfire, known as the Thomas Fire, burned dry brush after erupting earlier in the evening, Ventura County officials said on Twitter. #VCFD @VCFD pic.twitter.com/WrpIq7mAaf — VCFD PIO (@VCFD_PIO) December 5, 2017One motorist was killed fleeing the fire, a local ABC affiliate reported. “We got my kids out first,” Melissa Grisales told ABC 7 in Los Angeles. “We’re really just trying to catch it around the edges and just pinching it off as quickly as we possibly can,” Ventura County firefighter Jason Hodge told the Los Angeles Times.

Source: Huffington Post December 05, 2017 07:52 UTC