Fire In Sylmar/Northern San Fernando Valley

Above, XSNGH Glenn Thornhill and yours truly.

It is definitely fire season in California.

A wildfire has broken out in the Sylmar/Northern San Fernando Valley overnight. It stared in the Sylmar area and has spread into Porter Ranch.

XSNGH Glenn Thornhill and his family have been evacuated from their home and are safe. (There goes his clamp-out plans for this weekend with the Billy Holcomb Chapter.)

According to CNN:

(CNN) - A fast-growing, wind-driven wildfire swept into the northern Los Angeles area overnight, forcing hurried evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people, closing portions of at least three major freeways and sending firefighters scrambling to save homes. 

The Saddleridge Fire, which started Thursday and exploded to 4,600 acres by early Friday, jumped across the 210 and 5 freeways overnight as it spread into northern Los Angeles neighborhoods. 

An undetermined number of homes have been destroyed, and mandatory evacuations were called for more than 12,000 homes -- often while occupants were sleeping -- in and near Los Angeles' Porter Ranch neighborhood, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. 

"We need people to leave now while they can," Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said early Friday. 

This is just one of the several blazes in Southern California fueled by strong Santa Ana winds, with gusts around 60 mph. Many parts of the region are under red-flag warnings -- meaning high fire risk -- into Friday afternoon. 

The Saddleridge Fire started around 9 p.m. ET and jumped the 210 and 5 freeways, and some parts those roads and the 405 were closed as orange embers lit up the night sky. By late Thursday it had gutted 60 acres; but some four hours later, it had grown to more than 4,000 acres, fire officials said.

To read more, go here.