according to the California Highway Patrol. Elsewhere, Castaic Union School District principals who were at a training meeting when the Hughes brush fire broke out were told to immediately return ...

Southern California is under a red flag warning ... That helped the fight against the Hughes Fire in the Castaic area north of Los Angeles, allowing helicopters to drop water, which kept it ...

Students attending Castaic Middle School and Castaic Elementary School were evacuated and transported to a Ralph’s parking lot south of the fire at Halsey Canyon, where parents could pick them up, ...

Fire crews were quick to jump on the rapidly-spreading Hughes Fire, with firefighting aircraft executing water and retardant drops as the flames spread across dry brush in dangerously low humidity.

Even with thick smoke coming from the Hughes Fire, skies have been clear in many areas, and the air quality forecast has been good. But that doesn't tell the whole story.