A similar assessment is planned west of Santa Barbara, where a wildfire charred more than 11 square miles of coastal slopes above U.S. 101. The wildfire spanning 73 square miles near Lake Isabella in the southern Sierra Nevada was more than was expected to be fully surrounded by midnight. In mountains 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles, crews were finishing fire lines at two adjacent blazes that scorched about 8½ square miles above thousands of foothill homes. The fire that started Tuesday has grown to nearly 1.5 square miles, threatening more than 2,400 homes, businesses and other structures, a spokesman for the state's forestry agency said Wednesday. Fast-moving wildfires fanned by strong, erratic winds and high temperatures are burning in California and Arizona.

Source: ABC News June 29, 2016 17:31 UTC