PCH reopens, evacuation orders lifted in Malibu as improving weather aids fight against Franklin fire
LA TimesAll mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted in Malibu as cooler temperatures, rising humidity and gentler winds helped firefighters boost containment on the Franklin fire. “We’ve had a lot of good success in continuing to march forward on our containment of this incident,” Dusty Martin, a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection incident commander, said in a Friday evening community update. “We’re going to remain vigilant and continue working until all those heat sources have been extinguished.” At the start of the week, most of Los Angeles was under a rare ‘particularly dangerous’ fire warning due to the combination of Santa Ana winds and critically low humidity levels. “As we shift from response to recovery following the Franklin fire, I want to acknowledge how challenging this time has been for our community,” Malibu City Councilwoman Marianne Riggins said Friday evening.
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