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Brush fire torches 15 acres near Los Angeles

A brush fire near Los Angeles torched 25 acres (10 hectares) on Wednesday (July 11) evening, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said. At 6pm local time (0100gmt Thursday), the blaze was 50% contained, in dry and windy conditions. The fire, dubbed the Arrow Fire, was burning close to a major freeway and tracks of the Los Angeles commuter rail system, but trains were still running, according to Metro Los Angeles. U.S. wildfires have already burned more than 3.3 million acres (1.3 million hectares) this year, more than the annual average of about 2.6 million acres over the past 10 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center tracking website.