Brush fires in Ventura County: evacuation orders and road closures

VALLEY OF SANTA ROSA, California (KABC) –

Mandatory and voluntary evacuations were underway Thursday night near the Ventura-Los Angeles county border after two separate brush fires broke out miles away.

In Santa Rosa, the "Hill Fire" burned 10,000 acres and imposed mandatory evictions for Camarillo Springs, the Vallecito Trailer Park, the Cal State University Channel Islands Campus and the Dos Vientos neighborhood.

Shortly before 8:30 pm, the commander of the Point Mugu Naval Base ordered the evacuation of the facility.

Highway 101 was closed in both directions between Borchard Road and Pleasant Valley Road.

Compulsory evacuation orders were issued in the Hidden Hills and Bell Canyon hills of Calabasas, as well as in areas north of 101 Freeway, between Valley Circle Boulevard and Lindero Canyon Road, due Fire over 2,000 acres Woolsey, controlled to 0%.

The evacuations were voluntary in the villages of Simi Valley Westlake, Hidden Hills, Agoura Hills and northeast of Oak Park, north of Doubletree Road.

"This mainly concerns large animals, disabled people, the elderly, etc.," according to a statement posted on the official Twitter account of the City of Calabasas.

EVACUATION CENTERS
– Borchard Community Center, 190 North Reino Road, Newbury Park
– Community Center Park, 1605 Burnley Street, Camarillo
– Rancho Santa Susana Community Center, 5005 East Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley
– Oak Park High School, 899 Kanan Road, Oak Park
– Pierce College, 6201 Winnetka Ave., Woodland Hills
– Taft Charter, 5461 Winnetka Avenue, Woodland Hills

ROAD CLOSURES
– 101 Highway to Borchard Road and Pleasant Valley Road to Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks
– The Santa Rosa road in Camarillo is closed in both directions

CLOSURES OF SCHOOL FRIDAY
– Unified School District of Conejo Valley (all schools)
– Hueneme Elementary School District (all schools)
– Las Virgenes Unified School District (all schools)
– Mesa Union School District (all schools)
– Oak Park Unified School District (all schools)
– Oxnard Elementary School District (all schools)
– Oxnard Union High School District (all schools)
– Pleasant Valley School District (all schools)
– Rio School District (all schools)
– Somis Union School District (all schools)
– Ventura County Charter Schools: ACE, Bridges, MATES, River Oaks, Vista Real (all Ventura County sites)
– Ventura County Education Office: ACCESS, Dean Triggs School, Dwire School, Gateway Community School, Hathaway Elementary School, James Foster School, La Mariposa Elementary School, Las Colinas Middle School, VCOE High School Classroom Moorpark, Phoenix – Airport, Phoenix – Los Nogales, Phoenix – Moorpark, Pleasant Valley Early Years Center, Ritchen Kindergarten, Sunkist School, Williams Kindergarten
– State University of California, Channel Islands