A brush fire erupted amid powerful winds Wednesday afternoon in the Castaic area, quickly spreading to more than 5,000 acres as it burned out of control near the 5 Freeway, officials said. Fire crews from Los Angeles County and the Angeles National Forest responded to the so-called Hughes Fire after it broke out about 11 a.

While many of the fires that started burning in Southern California earlier this month have been contained, fire enabling weather has picked back up in the area and new fires have been ignited.

Parched Southern California could get some badly needed rain this weekend to dampen the prospects of another round of killer wildfires