L.A and Orange County Fire Departments held a training exercise in Malibu to debut the world s largest firefighting helicopter on Tuesday.
Shortly before 9 a.m., an evacuation warning was issued for an area that included North Gilman Springs Road and South Timothy Lane, just south of the 60 Freeway. Less than a dozen homes were affected by the warning, officials said.
The evacuation warning was lifted just before 1 p.m.
A brush fire that erupted near Beaumont spread to 900 acres and was burning out of control as firefighters attacked it on the ground and from the air, officials said.
By 1 p.m., the county fire department said the fire had spread to 1,933 acres as firefighters had stopped the forward progress and reached about 10% containment.
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Sanderson Fire: Evacuation warning issued as 1,500-acre blaze burns out of control near Beaumont
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