The 150-acre Danny Fire near the Golden State (5) Freeway south of Gorman was 72% contained Saturday.
“(The) Los Angeles County Fire Department flew a drone over the fire last night and detected some residual heat within the fire perimeter,” incident command officials said Saturday morning. “Firefighters will focus efforts today on working those areas to find and extinguish hot spots.”
An evacuation order was in effect for the fire footprint and the directly adjacent area. Evacuation warnings were in effect for areas north of Hungry Valley Road, west of Interstate 5 to the Los Angeles County border, north of Lancaster Road and west of Three Points.
The fire broke out around 4:50 p.m. Thursday north of Smokey Bear Road, according to Angeles National Forest headquarters.
The fire is being fought by U.S. Forest Service firefighters assigned to the Angeles National Forest, Cleveland National Forest, Lassen National Forest, Los Padres National Forest, San Bernardino National Forest and Shasta- Trinity National Forest along with engine crews and equipment from Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and Idaho,
The firefighters are operating in unified command with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.