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Firefighters in Southern California rushed to respond to a rapidly-burning blaze early Wednesday afternoon.
The Hughes Fire grew quickly near Castaic Lake, ballooning to more than 3,400 acres.
“That one’s gonna go nuclear. It’s big,” wildfire expert Jacob Weigler told The New York Post. Weigler said he had been in contact with colleagues near the scene and that an initial equipment request from fire services indicated a potentially massive disaster.
Evacuation orders were issued in the area, with warnings in Charlie Canyon, Bitter Canyon, Ridge, Sloan, and Greenhill.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but forecasters had warned of more critical fire weather affecting the region through Thursday.
