Two wildfires in San Gabriel Mountains force hundreds of homes to evacuate

Hundreds of homes remained under mandatory evacuations Tuesday as a pair of wildfires charred nearly 5,000 acres in the San Gabriel Mountains The battle to contain two large wildfires burning out of control above San Gabriel Valley foothill communities became something of a smoky slog Tuesday as firefighters took on the flames in rugged canyons evacuated residents anxiously awaited word and the surrounding region endured a bad air day