Evacuations ordered as wildfire spreads in rural California

UPDATE: 11/8/2018 2:40 p.m. Authorities in Northern California have ordered mandatory evacuation in a rural area where a wildfire has grown to 18,000 acres amid hot and windy weather.

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office says an evacuation order was issued Thursday for areas of Paradise, a town of about 27,000 people.

The office also ordered people in the tiny town of Pulga to evacuate.

The California Highway Patrol says is closing Highway 70 at Pentz Road due to the fire and is urging motorists to avoid the area.

Fire officials say firefighters are working to access the area and that the blaze continues to spread.

The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warnings in much of Southern California and Northern California, saying low humidy and strong winds are expected to begin Thursday morning and continue through Friday evening.

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{“url”:”https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1060591322132709376″,”author_name”:”CAL FIRE”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;&#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/CampFire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#CampFire&#lt;/a&#gt; [update] off Camp Creek Road and Pulga Road, Jarbo Gap off Highway 70 in the Feather River Canyon is now 5,000 acres. Evacuations in progress. &#lt;a href=”https://t.co/I2eyWcu8Ro”&#gt;https://t.co/I2eyWcu8Ro&#lt;/a&#gt; &#lt;a href=”https://t.co/uxt3JPu8B6″&#gt;pic.twitter.com/uxt3JPu8B6&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;– CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1060591322132709376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;November 8, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}

{“url”:”https://twitter.com/CALFIRE_ButteCo/status/1060563157691727872″,”author_name”:”CAL FIRE Butte Unit/Butte County Fire Department”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/CALFIRE_ButteCo”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;&#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Campfire?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#Campfire&#lt;/a&#gt; [Update], Fire is at 1000 acres. Dozens of resources being called in from throughout the State. &#lt;a href=”https://t.co/5VpYRQhLcX”&#gt;pic.twitter.com/5VpYRQhLcX&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;– CAL FIRE Butte Unit/Butte County Fire Department (@CALFIRE_ButteCo) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/CALFIRE_ButteCo/status/1060563157691727872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;November 8, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}