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A wildfire burns in Santa Clarita north of Los Angeles(Photo: Katharine Lotze, AP)
LOS ANGELES -- Flames lit up the evening sky as a wildfire<span style="color: Red;">*</span>marched across<span style="color: Red;">*</span>hillsides north of Los Angeles, blackening thousands of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>acres, fire officials said.
The fire also created<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a huge cloud of smoke that wafted across the metropolis.As of 9:45 p.m. PT, the fire had burned 3,327 acres, the Los Angeles County Fire Department reported.
The Sand Fire, as it was being called, broke out in the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Santa Clarita Valley north of Los Angeles as afternoon<span style="color: Red;">*</span>temperatures neared<span style="color: Red;">*</span>100 degrees. The wildfire<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was burning through heavy brush on hillsides tinder dry from a subpar year for rain in Southern California. It broke out along the Antelope Valley Freeway (State Route<span style="color: Red;">*</span>14) near the Sand Canyon Road<span style="color: Red;">*</span>exit,the county fire department said.
The orange flames were visible from Los Angeles' upscale westside.
No structures were reported destroyed. A<span style="color: Red;">*</span>single minor injury of a firefighter was reported, fire officials<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said.
The fire was being attacked by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>water-dropping<span style="color: Red;">*</span>fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and bulldozers.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The fire was one of several across California, which is seeing a heat wave.
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Isaac Howard, 5, plays in a water feature during a visit with his family to the splash pad at Elver Park in Madison, Wis., on July 21, 2016. The high pressure system, sometimes called a "heat dome," will push conditions to their hottest point so far this summer, though record hot temperatures are not expected, according to the National Weather Service.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> John Hart, AP
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