Weather.com - Shaya Tayefe Mohafer and Christopher Weber, 5/03/13
Firefighters from Glendale, Calif., and Pasadena, Calif., stand watch as bulldozers clear a firebreak near a wildfire burning along a hillside near homes in Thousand Oaks, Calif. (Image: AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
LOS ANGELES -- A wildfire raged around a coastal region in Southern California early Friday morning, after flaring up in strong winds a day earlier and cutting a 10-mile path to the Pacific.
By the time it reached Pacific Coast Highway late Thursday night, the blaze had burned about 8,000 acres - or 12 1/2 square miles - and had forced the evacuation of a university and thousands of people from hundreds of homes, officials said.
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