VANIER: The governor of California has issued a state of emergency for the Los Angeles area due to an ongoing brushfire. The La Tuna blaze is now the largest fire the city has ever seen, consuming more than 2,300 hectares.</s>ALLEN: Officials say the fire is only 25 percent contained. More than 1,000 firefighters are trying to knock this one down. The fire started Friday. It spread quickly because of hot temperatures and high winds. Right there in Burbank, California. Let's get the latest on the fire conditions. Our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us now with that and more on perhaps another storm at sea. Hello, Pedram.</s>PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, a lot going on, Natalie. This -- conditions across parts of California, really is impressive as it gets when take a look at what has been playing out here in the past couple of days of course. And the gusty winds haven't helped, the extreme temperatures haven't helped. Anytime you talk about fires in the Los Angeles area, you've got to be dealing with mountains in this general region as well. Any sort of elevated terrain really exacerbates the firefighting efforts, as we seen in the past few years. But here's what's going on across the western United States in particular. Over 130 active large wildfires but some 12,000 firefighters in the state of California. You heard a few hundred down there across Southern California but we're talking 12,000 certainly scattered about the state, much of it in the northern portion of the state. In fact, about 100 firefighters were brought back from Houston after having been out there for the firefighting efforts, for the relief efforts of Harvey. They're being brought back to California for fire efforts there. So kind of put the perspective of what some of these folks are dealing with.</s>ALLEN: All right, Pedram, thank you very much. That will wrap this hour of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Natalie Allen.</s>VANIER: And I'm Cyril Vanier. "WORLD SPORT" is up next and we'll be back at the top of the hour with more news from around the world. Stay with CNN.
Los Angeles under State of Emergency Due to Fire