The sheep fire rose from 35 acres on Sunday morning to 775 acres by afternoon, according to InciWeb. The fire was controlled by only 5%.
“Law enforcement is going door-to-door with a mandatory evacuation for Desert Front Road and Wild Horse Canyon,” the latest fire update said.
“Wrightwood is under evacuation warning. There is a closed road from Hwy 138 to Lone Pine (Highway 2),” according to a review of the incident.
CNN contacted authorities for details on how many residents are under evacuation orders.
The fire started on Saturday night. The cause remains under investigation.
Located about 23 miles outside of the Los Angeles area, the forest is “within one of the driest, most fire-hazardous areas in the United States,” according to the National Forest Forest website.
Southern California firefighters have already warned of an impending major fire. Robert Garcia, chief of the U.S. Forest Service’s National Forest Fire Department, told CNN last week that the summer months are starting “relatively.” Firefighting resources have been mobilized since March to Arizona and New Mexico, where the Black Fire has just become the second largest fire in the state in history.
“Southern California usually has a fire season from the historic end of June until then in the fall,” said Chief Garcia. “But now we’re seeing activity all year.”
The National Forest in Angelis is already under fire restrictions, which are expected to expand around the forest in the coming months, he said.
CNN’s Stephanie Elam contributed to this report.
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