A brush fire in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles ignited and spread quickly Thursday, forcing thousands of evacuations.

By Thursday afternoon, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation had identified the two people killed as 38-year-old Brandon Oman, who died at the scene, and his wife, 35-year-old Stevie Oman, who died at a hospital in neighboring Omaha, Nebraska. Both were found outside the burning home that police say belongs to the shooter.

Authorities say a shooting and subsequent explosion and fire in a house in western Iowa left two people dead and a third critically injured

Investigators are still on scene Thursday after a fatal shooting and house fire in Glenwood, Iowa. Investigators survey the scene a fatal shooting and fire at a home on the 400 block of Grove Street in Glenwood,

An evacuation order has been issued for all of Lake Piru Recreation Area and east to the Los Angeles County line, south to SR 126, west to Center Street.

A rapidly growing wildfire straddling the Ventura-Los Angeles county line Thursday afternoon triggered evacuations in and around Piru and Castaic amid a major heat wave that officials warned could foster extreme fire growth and behavior.

Fire crews are working to contain a fast-moving brush fire in Ventura and Los Angeles counties that has led to evacuations on Thursday.