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Crews worked overnight and early Sunday to strengthen containment lines and put out hot spots where a brush fire in Acton scorched an estimated 345 acres but is now 95% contained, fire officials said.

All evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted.

The Crown Fire was reported at 11:23 a.m. Friday near North Crown Valley and Soledad Canyon roads in the remote community near the Antelope Valley, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

Firefighters arrived to a second-alarm fire that had burned 80 acres at a “moderate rate of spread,” the department reported. Initially, crews said the fire had the potential to grow to as many as 300 acres, and by 1:30 p.m. it had burned nearly that many and had the potential to burn another 300 acres, according to the county fire department.

Some structures were threatened by the flames, and evacuation orders and warnings were issued, but it was unclear how many people were affected.

Roughly 158 fire personnel remain at the scene, a LACFD public information officer said.

No injuries or property damage was reported and the cause is under investigation.

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