A rapidly spreading brush fire ignited ... those unversed, Castaic is an unincorporated community and census designated place in the northwestern part of Los Angeles County, California.

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter. The Hughes Fire started at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Castaic north ...

A new map lays bare the huge area of LA County being burned by the Hughes Fire ... 31,000 residents have fled Castaic and a local prison has been evacuated. California remains full of highly ...

About 15 miles away from Chancellor's location in the Grapevine section of the freeway, the Hughes Fire was well underway in what witnesses described as an apocalyptic scene in the Castaic area ...

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.

The fires include the deadly Eaton and Palisades fire and the Hughes Fire, which started Wednesday morning in the Castaic area ... fires on record in California. The region is under severe ...