California fires force evacuation in exclusive L.A. area

The new fire also threatened the hilltop campus of one of the world's richest museums, even as more than 1,000 firefighters in nearby Ventura County battled the biggest of the wind-fed blazes, which threatened more than 12,000 homes.A brush fire erupted overnight and quickly spread, creating an alarming spectacle for pre-dawn commuters on the hillsides east of Interstate 405 before the California Highway Patrol closed the heavily traveled freeway.The Skirball Fire, the newest of several uncontai