Porter Ranch fire

Mel Melcon /Los Angeles Times / October 13, 2008

A wall of smoke rises from a fire in the Porter Ranch area that prompted the evacuation of Browns Canyon Road and Oat Mountain Motorway near Chatsworth.

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