LOS ANGELES — Firefighters are dousing remaining smoldering areas from a destructive wildfire that raged along the northern edge of Los Angeles last week.
The Los Angeles Fire Department says containment of the approximately 12-square-mile fire is at 43% Monday.
Updated assessments lowered the number of destroyed structures to 17 but increased the number damaged to 58.
The fire erupted Thursday night and was rapidly spread by Santa Ana winds. A man in the fire area went into cardiac arrest and died.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
To the east in Riverside County, a 1.5-square-mile fire that destroyed dozens of mobile homes and left two people dead last week is 94% contained.
That fire ignited when a trash truck driver dumped a burning load amid winds.
