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A firefighter backs up a car at City Creek Road as the Line Fire burns in the San Bernardino Mountains, forcing evacuations for neighborhoods.If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news.This is a developing story and will be updated.
The fire broke out last Thursday and has been a challenge for firefighters because off a mixture of high temperatures, steep terrain and dense brush. It has also created its own weather, generating erratic winds that cast embers far and wide. Terrifyingly awesome pyrocumulonimbus clouds formed on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, generating erratic winds and lightning strikes which threaten new fire starts. There's a good chance they'll show up again on Monday, according to the National Weather Service in San Diego.To form, the clouds need both a source of lift and a source of moisture.
Highway 18 is currently closed from Kuffel Canyon to the Big Bear Dam. If you are in Running Springs, you are able to get out but you will not be allowed back in.Highway 18 is closed going northbound from Kuffel Canyon to Running Springs. Only southbound traffic is allowed.Highway 330 is closed from Highland Ave to Highway 18 in Running Springs.SR-38 eastbound is shut down at Bryant St. An additional closure will be set up at Angelus Oaks.
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