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Channel 4 has cut into programming to cover a wildfire on the Palos Verdes Peninsula that looks to be starting to burn buildings. The fire was reported just before 8 p.m. around Ocean Trails Drive and Palos Verdes Drive, near the Trump National Golf Club, the station says quoting Captain Mike Brown of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The Times says evacuations have been ordered in the Portugese Bend area. The Daily Breeze places the fire as above the Portuguese Bend community and below the ridgeline of Rolling Hills. KTLA says the fire escalated from 1 to 3 alarms within about a half hour.
* 10:45 p.m.: Peninsula High School has been opened up as evacuation center. Ernie Howlett Park can receive horses, the Breeze says. The Times pegs the evacuation area as the neighborhoods on Portuguese Bend Road, Amber Sky Drive and Crest Road. Across town in La Cañada Flintridge, the Station Fire has forced evacuations along Vista del Valle Road east of La Cañada Boulevard. An evacuation center has opened at La Crescenta High School.
11 p.m.: Rancho Palos Verdes mayor Larry Clark says on CBS2 the Terranea Resort is opening its rooms to evacuees. The evacuation area is now Crenshaw on the north end, Burma Road on the west, Portuguese Bend Road on the east, PV Drive on the east end, per an L.A. County sheriff's deputy on KTLA.
Photo from Palos Verdes: KTLA