Thermal detection indicated a number of hot spots in and near Topanga State Park, which is inside Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
Sections of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) in California were closed by two of the fires raging in the area.
Notices on the NRA's website said the King Gillette Ranch Visitor Center, the Paramount Ranch, and the Solstice Canyon and Cheeseboro Canyon were all closed for a variety of reasons relating to the Palisades and Kenneth fires.
The King Gillette Ranch area was closed as part of the evacuation order issued for the area, the Paramount Ranch was closed due to ground operations tied to firefighting efforts on the Palisades Fire, while the other areas were closed due to the proximity of the fires.
While the National Park Service had not released any statement about the impact of the fires on the NRA, maps showed hot spots had been detected inside Topanga State Park, which is within the NRA's boundaries.
The NRA has a long history with wildfire, and while the Park Service website notes that the "current fire return interval of 28 years is far shorter than the estimated natural fire return interval of approximately 70-100 years," it was just a little more than six years ago when the Woolsey Fire swept over "almost 100,000 acres of land managed by several partners, including the National Park Service, California State Parks, the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy," the website states.
"More than 21,000 acres of National Park Service land burned, which represents 88 percent of NPS land within SMMNRA. Most of Western Town at Paramount Ranch was destroyed, as well as the 1927 Peter Strauss Ranch house, the Rocky Oaks ranger residence and museum building, the Arroyo Sequit ranger residence, and most of the UCLA La Kretz Field Station."
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