The National Weather Service on Tuesday extended its red flag warning for Southern California until Thursday evening.

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On Tuesday at 9:54 a.m. a red flag warning was issued by the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA in effect until 10 p.m.

A red flag warning is in effect through Friday morning for most of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, according to the National Weather Service.

A fire broke out Wednesday night along the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass near the Getty Center, burning about 20 acres and spurring an evacuation warning.

Dubbed the Hughes Fire, the wildfire broke out around 10:42 am and went from 50-100 acres to 9,000 acres in hours, threatening local communities and Magic Mountain.

The dangerous fire conditions in Southern California are expected to last a little longer than previously anticipated. The red flag warning was set to expire at 2 p.m., but the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in an alert that it had been extended until 10 p.

Firefighters made quick work of a brush fire that broke out overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning. — prompting evacuation warnings along the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass. Within hours, forward progress of the brush fire was stopped at about 40 acres, officials reported.

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The Hughes Fire that started on Wednesday has burned through over 5,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties on Wednesday.

A red flag warning was expanded Wednesday afternoon and is in effect through Friday morning for most of Los Angeles and Ventura counties due to extremely low humidity and offshore wind gusts, according to the National Weather Service.