Fire threat prompts rolling blackouts in Los Angeles

Raging wildfires threatened high-voltage transmission lines along southern California's Interstate 5, causing the utility that serves Los Angeles to orchestrate rotating power outages in some districts for nearly an hour Saturday.
Four firefighters have been injured, and more than 10,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the northern San Fernando Valley by the wind-driven Sayre Fire, named after the street where it was first spotted in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles.

The Sayre fire, which has burned more than 6,500 acres since it began Friday night, was one of at least three affecting the Los Angeles area Saturday.

In Santa Barbara County, the Tea Fire was about 40 percent contained after destroying more than 100 homes and burning 1,800 acres since Thursday.

South of Los Angeles, a brush fire that began in Corona has moved into Yorba Linda, destroying at least 30 homes and scorching 800 to 1,000 acres, according to CNN affiliate KTLA.

As of about 1 p.m. (4 p.m. ET) Saturday, the Sayre fire was 10 percent contained, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.

The brush-fueled Sayre fire erupted late Friday in the steep terrain of the Angeles National Forest on the outskirts of Sylmar, about 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.

It covered 1,500 acres and threatened at least 1,000 homes just three hours after it was reported, according to Los Angeles Fire spokesman Armando Hogan.