Strong gusty winds, heavy smoke and heat continued to challenge more than 2,000 firefighters who worked into a fourth night on Sunday to suppress the fast-moving Powerhouse Fire that has consumed 25,000 acres within the Angeles National Forest and was headed toward a popular poppy reserve.

At least 1,000 people from the Lake Hughes and Elizabeth Lake areas remained evacuated from their homes as the blaze made a destructive march north toward the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve and the California Aqueduct.

While temperatures in the area stayed in the 90s on Sunday, high winds pushed hard over the rocky terrain, challenging firefighters out on hot spots and their efforts to prevent the flames from fanning into different directions, including back to Green Valley and other residential areas. In some spots, thick dead brush hadn’t burned since 1929.

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