A California wildfire torched twenty vehicles on interstate 15 creating pandemonium amongst motorist who escaped the fire by fleeing on foot along the freeway on Friday. The fire unapologetically seeped through Saturday morning continuing to burn violently torching 3,500 acres in San Bernardino County.

Officials told NBC L.A that, Helicopters couldn’t drop water because five drones hovered over the blaze, creating hazards in smoky winds for a deadly midair disaster and lighting cars on fire, burning homes and sending billows of black smoke into the sky while paralyzing traffic in both directions.”

NBC reports that High winds also hindered firefighters’ efforts to battle the growing blaze which started at 2:33 p.m. Officials dubbed it the North Fire. Mandatory evacuations were in place in the Baldy Mesa areas east of Sheep Creek Road, north of Highway 138, west of the 15 Freeway and Highway 395, and south of Phelan road, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department.

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