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PHOTOS: Brush fire erupts next to 15 Freeway in Cajon Pass, California

ByABC7.com staff KABC logo
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Cars pass through the 15 Freeway, which was damaged by the North Fire, on Saturday, July 18, 2015.
Images captured by AIR7 HD show charred acres of the North Fire near the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Saturday, July 18, 2015.
A view of the smoke from the North Fire seen by ABC7 viewer Alyssa Ralph in Apple Valley on Saturday, July 18, 2015.
Firefighters work to put out the North Fire, which reached 3,500 acres, on Friday, July 17, 2015.
People abandoned their cars and walked down the 15 Freeway to escape the North Fire on Friday, July 17, 2015.
A big rig is engulfed in flames on the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
The North Fire burns through dry brush in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
The North Fire threatened hundreds of structures in Baldy Mesa on Friday, July 17, 2015.
Four structures were damaged by the North Fire on Friday, July 17, 2015.
A helicopter makes a water drop on flames from the North Fire on Friday, July 17, 2015.
Burnt remains of cars on the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass are left after a fast-moving brush fire spread in the area on Friday, July 17, 2015.
ABC7 viewer Jaime Ramos sent in this photo of burnt cars on the 15 Freeway in the aftermath of the North Fire on Friday, July 17, 2015.
Flames burn dry brush next to the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
Smoke and flames cloud the skies next to the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
People stand to the side of the freeway after lanes were shut down on the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
ABC7 viewer Alin Hughes sent in this photo of a helicopter dropping water on the North Fire on Friday, July 17, 2015.
Smoke billows into the sky after a brush fire breaks out next to the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
Fast-moving flames spread next to the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
ABC7 viewer K Razeeq sent in this photo of the North Fire from the 15 Freeway on Friday, July 17, 2015.
Several cars caught on fire after they were trapped by a brush fire on the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
Thick black smoke rises as a brush fire burns next to the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
A brush fire rapidly spreads next to the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
A plane drops fire retardant around the brush fire next to the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
A helicopter drops water on burning cars on the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
An aerial view of the North Fire which erupted next to the 15 Freeway at Oak Hill Road in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
Several cars caught on fire after a brush fire shut down the 15 Freeway at Oak Hill Road in the Cajon Pass on Friday, July 17, 2015.
A fast-moving brush fire erupted in the median of the 15 Freeway just north of State Route 138 near Oak Hill Road in the Cajon Pass Friday, July 17, 2015.
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Cars pass through the 15 Freeway, which was damaged by the North Fire, on Saturday, July 18, 2015.
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CAJON PASS -- A brush fire, dubbed the North Fire, broke out Friday, July 17, 2015 next to the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass. See photos above.

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