California Firefighters Work to Protect Former Nuclear Reactor Site
Crews are battling the Sandy Fire in California as flames approach a decommissioned nuclear reactor site near West Hills.
Fire Threatens Former Nuclear Site
Firefighting crews are working to prevent the Sandy Fire from reaching a former nuclear reactor site in California. The blaze has prompted emergency responses in the West Hills area, located approximately 30 miles west of downtown Los Angeles.
As plumes of smoke engulfed the sky on Monday, residents in the affected suburbs began preparing for potential evacuations. While local authorities issued a voluntary "evacuation warning" for the area, some residents, such as Melissa Bumstead, chose to pack vehicles and prepare fire-proof bags immediately in response to the encroaching smoke.
Emergency Response and Containment
Fire crews are currently racing to keep the fierce blaze from entering the perimeter of the former nuclear facility.
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- 1.Inside Climate News — Wildfire Crews Race to Keep Fierce California Blaze From Former Nuclear Reactor Site
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Verified the previous fix landed correctly — the McKinley Grove/Garnet Fire sentence has been removed and no trace of it remains in the body or key facts. All remaining claims in the body and key facts trace to source [1] (Inside Climate News), whose snippet directly supports the West Hills location (~30 miles west of downtown LA), the voluntary evacuation warning, Melissa Bumstead's preparations, and the fire threatening the former nuclear reactor site. Sources [2]–[8] are not cited in the article. No fabricated quotes, no editorializing, and no unsupported claims detected.
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