Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday near Castaic Lake, ...

Alyce McFadden, a reporting fellow on The Times’s Metro desk, writes about what covering a disaster for the first time brought home to her.

Named the Hughes fire, the blaze was reported just after 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, in the area of Lake Hughes Road and the 5 Freeway and close to Castaic Lake, according to Cal Fire.

Ventura County evacuation areas as a result of the Hughes Fire just north of Castaic Lake will be in place overnight from ...