Structures burnin Southern California wildfire

GLENDORA, California (AP):

Structures burned in a wildfire and threatened dozens of homes in dangerously dry foothills of Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains yesterday.

Television images showed several structures engulfed in flames fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that spat embers across neighbourhoods Thursday morning.

Evacuations were ordered for houses at the edge of the fire.

The blaze has charred at least 125 acres above a neighbourhood abutting a canyon of Angeles National Forest, just north of the city of Glendora. The wilderness area is about 25 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sergeant Raymond Roth says police are questioning two persons of interest detained near Colby Trail, where the fire was believed to have started. Roth stresses that they were not suspects.