It was first reported just after 11 p.m. near northbound lanes of the freeway in Sherman Oaks, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

A fire was burning Thursday morning in Bel-Air on the eastern side of the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass. The fire was burning uphill, toward Sepulveda Fire Road. At around 11:15 p.m., winds in the area were around 8 to 15 mph,

A brush fire broke out on the east side of the Sepulveda Pass near Bel-Air at about 11 p.m. Wednesday night. The blaze spread to 20 acres and prompted an evacuation warning before firefighters got the upper hand on it.

A fast-moving wildfire exploded to roughly 10,200 acres near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic Wednesday morning, prompting mandatory evacuation orders and road closures, authorities said.

The fire threat remains critical in Southern California, where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders Wednesday as fire crews battled the out-of-control Hughes Fire near Castaic, a suburb in the foothills and mountains of northern Los Angeles County.

Parched Southern California endured more dangerous winds on Wednesday but could get some needed rain this weekend, dampening prospects of another round of deadly wildfires while raising the possibility of new challenges like toxic ash runoff.