Los Angeles County residents receive erroneous evacuation warning as fires continue
LOS ANGELES − Residents across Los Angeles County received an erroneous evacuation warning as fires continue to blaze across Southern California.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said in a post on X that the warning was intended to be for areas impacted by the Kenneth Fire that sparked in the western San Fernando Valley Thursday afternoon.
Hahn called the incorrect warning a "technical error."
The Los Angeles City Emergency Management Department confirmed the error in a post on X and said evacuation orders haven’t changed.
A correction was issued at 4:19 p.m. PST.
The warning frayed nerves of residents who have seen three days of blazes after a massive windstorm Tuesday.
Current Kenneth Fire evacuation orders
Evacuation orders in place for the Kenneth Fire as of 4:30 p.m. PST stretch from just east of Paolo Comado Canyon Road on the west to Hidden Hills, according to Cal Fire.
The Los Angeles Fire Department has a mandatory evacuation warning for the area between Saticoy Street and Burbank Boulevard between County Lane Road on the west and E Valley Circle Boulevard to the east.
Evacuation warnings are in place for Bell Canyon, eastern Agoura Hills and areas of Calabasas south of Highway 101.
The fire has burned nearly 800 acres, according to CalFire. An interactive map of the evacuation warnings is available on the CalFire website.