The National Weather Service said the period Friday to Sunday posed "the most significant fire-weather threat in the past five years."
Conditions prime for fire are forecast in the San Gabriel Valley and much of Southern California through Sunday.
Temperatures will climb precipitously Friday and Saturday in some areas before beginning a retreat on Sunday.
The California Highway Patrol reports the man drifted off Mount Baldy Road and into a retaining wall before sliding down the mountainside.
About 520 firefighters were assigned to the blaze as of Wednesday morning, backed by seven helicopters, Ryan Carey of the U.S. Forest Service said.
Two small earthquakes struck a mile southwest of La Verne on Thursday morning.
The smoke can be seen throughout the communities of Claremont and La Verne.
The fire burned a total of 17 acres before it was extinguished, fire crews reported.
The 54-year-old is facing charges of hit-and-run for two separate wrecks.
The incident happened this week when a Claremont police officer spotted the wanted man, and he ran, according to officials.
The shooting incident that left the woman paralyzed from the chest down happened back in 2012, but officials are hoping someone may have seen the suspect who "has frequented" the Pomona area.
Claremont police say the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office is investigating the death.
It was unclear if the death was a suicide. Law enforcement authorities were withholding the man's name until his next of kin could be notified.
There was an increase this year in the number of arrests made during an 18-day anti-DUI campaign by the Avoid the 100 task-force.
The California Highway Patrol is looking to fill a number of vacant officer positions throughout the state, the agency announced Tuesday.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, along with the U.S. Forest Service, DEA and CAMP, cleared out the growing operation this weekend.
The arrests coincide with a national anti-DUI crackdown and special Avoid the 100 operations in Los Angeles County. The operations continue through the Labor Day weekend.
Serial rapist Christopher Hubbart could return to Claremont, where he once called home, if he's released in November as currently planned.
The California Highway Patrol says they'll be closing out the summer with an anti-DUI campaign statewide.
The fire burned for 90 minutes and was fought by more than 100 Los Angeles County firefighters and three water-dropping helicopters.
A total of eight people were arrested at a weekend DUI checkpoint in town, police tell Patch-- however none of them were for suspected DUI.
The attached raw video from KTLA shows the scene as dozens of injured were helped on the eastbound Foothill (210) Freeway in Irwindale Thursday.
The seven-hour-long operation will begin Sunday night, police said.
Police say it's believed the middle school girl stepped into traffic and was stuck by a vehicle before school started Monday.
The slaying came on the same day the Los Angeles Times ran a story about a sharp spike in homicides in Pomona over the past two years.
Irven Vasquez, 19, of Pomona, received 15 years to life in State Prison.
At least one person was airlifted to the hospital and a second person was killed in a vehicle crash that caused a small wildfire near Glendora Ridge Road and Mount Baldy Road.
Los Angeles County has just leased an Erickson Air-Crane two super scoopers from the Canadian province of Quebec. This season is being described as one of the worst in a century.
Law enforcement agencies are planning two DUI checkpoints in Claremont Aug. 19 and Aug. 25.
Juan L. Lorenzo, 33, of San Gabriel was arrested in the stabbing death of Anthony Berry of Pomona.