Brush Fire Forces Evacuations in Ventura County

A brushfire erupted in Ventura County, California, on Wednesday, July 3, threatening multiple structures and forcing evacuations in the region.

Footage filmed by X user @travisescalante shows huge plumes of smoke wafting from the Sharp fire near Sycamore Drive in Simi Valley on Wednesday afternoon.

According to the Ventura County Fire Department, the blaze spread to 133 acres on Wednesday afternoon and forced the residents of at least 60 homes to evacuate. Credit: @travisescalante via Storyful

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My store here over here in Simi Valley, Sycamore Drive right off the 101 freeway.

And there's a big fire blowing up right now.

I can actually, you can see flames on top of the hill.

If you zoom in, you can see the flames up there.

There's a lot of smoke and it's really close to houses and there's a lot of wind blowing right now.

So this doesn't look good.

It's over here in Simi Valley.

They call it the sharp fire, I guess.

I'm at my store here.

American Mattress Family right on seaward.

And then I just heard a bunch of sirens and helicopters and planes and there's a lot of black smoke up there.

So I'm not sure what's going on, but it doesn't look good.

The flames are big and it's windy up here.

So this doesn't look good at all.

This is right over here in Simi Valley, at the top of Sycamore Drive.

My store here over here in Simi Valley Sycamore Drive right off the 101 freeway.

And there's a big fire blowing up right now.

I can actually, you can see flames on top of the hill.

If you zoom in, you can see the flames up there.

There's a lot of smoke and it's really close to houses and there's a lot of wind blowing right now.

So this doesn't look good.

It's over here in Simi Valley, they call it the sharp fire, I guess.

I'm at my store here.

American Mattress Family.

Right on Seaward.

And then I just heard a bunch of sirens and helicopters and planes and there's a lot of black smoke up there.

So I'm not sure what's going on, but it doesn't look good.

The flames are big and it's windy up here.

So this doesn't look good at all.

This is right over here in Simi Valley at the top of Sycamore Drive.