The 5 Freeway in northern Los Angeles County was closed due to snow as a January storm moved through Southern California.

Snow briefly shut down a key interstate north of Los Angeles for hours while weekend downpours doused wildfires across Southern California. As much as an inch of rain fell, posing

About 15 miles away from Chancellor's location in the Grapevine section of the freeway, the Hughes Fire was well underway in what witnesses described as an apocalyptic scene in the Castaic area about 40 miles north of downtown Los Angeles "It's breathtaking,

A fast-growing brush fire forced evacuation orders in the Los Angeles County community of Castaic on Wednesday, officials said. The blaze, which officials named the Hughes Fire, was first reported shortly after 10:30 a.m. along Lake Hughes Road, near Castaic Lake and the 5 Freeway, according to Cal Fire.

A Plano woman watches helplessly as wildfires devastate Altadena, her former home. Her friends are displaced or lost their homes and need donations.

LATEST Jan. 23, 8:45 a.m. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County continued to burn ... the major freeway that leads to the Grapevine, connecting the Los Angeles Basin ...

There are no evacuation orders in place now for the Eaton and Sepulveda Fires in LA County, the Clay Fire in Riverside County or the Laguna Fire in Ventura County. Evacuation orders were in place for areas near the Laguna Fire but have since been changed to evacuation warnings, according to Cal Fire.

LA County Sheriff says about 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders while another 23,000 were under evacuation warnings.

The Hughes Fire that started on Wednesday has burned through over 5,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties on Wednesday.

L.A. County's first significant storm in more than eight months has already forced the closure of I-5, unleashed mud on roadways, and closed Malibu's public schools.

The I-5 Freeway through the Grapevine has reopened several hours ... 5 p.m. and the northbound side reopened an hour later. The California Highway Patrol reopened the freeway after smoke was ...

LET’S GO TO L.A. COUNTY NOW, WHERE A FIRE HAS FORCED THOUSANDS ... THE FLAMES DID FORCE CREWS TO SHUT DOWN I-5 THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE FOR A WHILE, BUT IT IS BACK OPEN AGAIN.