FOXNews.com: Evacuations Begin in L.A. Ahead of 3rd Storm

Posted on January 20, 2010
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Los Angeles County and city authorities issued mandatory evacuation orders in advance, saying residents of more than 600 homes would have to be out by 9 a.m., just ahead of the storm's expected midday arrival.

The homes are in communities in the foothills and canyons below the rugged San Gabriel Mountains, where more than 250 square miles of forest burned away last summer, and public safety officials warned that basins designed to capture debris-laden runoff were full after two days of storms.

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