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Some 75,000 homes were ordered evacuated in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, with the Los Angeles County Fire Department tweeting: "imminent threat," adding that "Malibu lakes residents must leave area immediately."

Ventura County Fire Department Captain Dettorre Scott warned that the fire crosses the famous highway 101, "it will make its all the way down the Pacific Coast Highway, threatening more homes, more property, more lives," KTLA-TV reports.

Fire officials first ordained the evacuation of all 13,000 residents of the community, which stretches 21 miles along the ocean, but later scaled it back to the western two-thirds of the city.

Homeowners fleeing the wind-driven blaze jammed roadways to the fire and Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Ellen DeGeneres and Angelina Jolie.

At one point, one resident on Twitter pleaded for help in evacuating 40 horses from a farm, The Malibu Times reports.

Pepperdine University shut down its Malibu and Calabasas campuses and initiated shelter-in-place as the fire roared southward, sweeping into the Santa Monica mountains.

The Woolsey is one of the world's most ravishing travelers.

The swift-moving Camp Fire, raging about 80 miles north of Sacramento, consumed Paradise, and moved Friday morning into the eastern side of Chico, a city with a population of around 90,000. Fire officials said strong winds had hampered efforts to drop retardant by aircraft.

In less than 24 hours, the Camp Fire was torched over 31 square miles, or 20,000 acres, turning escape routes around the town of 27,000 residents were ordered to evacuate.

Cal Fire said the fire, only 5 percent contained, had consumed 70,000 acres.

On Thursdays, a flames engulfed Paradise, a frantic resident racing to a safety plunged into the thick smoke that darkened the daytime sky and made difficult driving.

"We were surrounded by fire," said police officer Mark Bbad, who lives in Paradise and works in Chico.

Bbad evacuated his family and then returned to the fire to help rescue several disabled residents, including a man trying to carry his bedridden wife to safety. "It was just a wall of fire on each side of us, and we could hardly see the road in front of us."

Sherri Pritchard said that she only had a few days before leaving her clothes behind.

"It was crazy, because when we were sitting in traffic people were panicking," she said. "It was chaos I could not believe what people were doing."

CAMP FIRE

Cal Fire Capt. Scott McLean said a couple of thousand structures were destroyed in the town about 180 miles northeast of San Francisco. "Pretty much the community of Paradise is destroyed, it's that kind of devastation," he said.

The National Weather Service issued red-flag warnings for fire in many areas of the state, saying low humidity and strong winds were expected to continue through the evening.

Acting California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Butte County, where the fire was burning about 80 acres per minute at one point, according to UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. That's equal to about 60 football fields per minute.

Hill Fire

Earlier in the day, the Fire Hill near Thousand Oaks in Ventura Country needed just 12 minutes to jump Highway 101, one of the area's primary roadways. It burned in the same path as the 2013 Springs Fire that torched 24,000 acres before running into the Pacific Ocean.

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The Fire Hill had consumed 10,000 acres, or 15 square miles, according to Cal Fire, though the Ventura County Fire Department reported no injuries or structure losses at a Thursday night press conference.

"The first part of this fuel bed had not seen fire for many years. Drought-stricken fuels, Santa Ana wind conditions, low relative humidity, high temperatures: It's a recipe for fire, "said Ventura County Fire Department Chief Assistant Chad Cook, the incident commander for the Hill Fire.

Woolsey Fire

Highway Patrol officials shut down Highway 101 in both directions at Liberty Canyon road after the blaze – what was it? – jumped the critical artery Friday.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department, Malibu Warned lakes residents to "leave area immediately" as the fire bore down on the area.

Celebrity TV celebrity Kim Kardashian-West, who lives in an area known as Hidden Hills in Los Angeles county, was among those forced to evacuate their homes as the Woolsey Fire exploded to 8,000 acres, People magazine reported. She had been filming aerial shots in her private home.

"Just landed back home and had 1 hour to pack up & evacuate our home. I pray everyone is safe, "she wrote.

Friday morning, fire officials reported that the fire had jumped Highway 101 near the city of Calabasas.

Contributing: Ventura County Star; Redding Record Searchlight; The Associated Press

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