Los Angeles County’s First Big Wildfire of 2024 Rages Mostly Uncontained

More than a thousand firefighters are battling the Post fire, which has quickly grown to 24 square miles in northern Los Angeles County.

Firefighters from the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) and other firemen respond to the Post Fire as it burns through the Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area in Lebec, Calif., on June 16, 2024. David Swanson/AFP

Fire crews are working to contain a north Los Angeles County blaze initially reported as a brush fire of less than a square mile that by the afternoon of June 17 had increased to engulf 24 square miles.

“We have well over 1,100 firefighting personnel both on the ground and in the air fighting this coordinated attack by a bunch of different agencies,” Craig Little, spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, told The Epoch Times. “It’s really an impressive thing to see with both the land attack and air attack.”