Erratic wind spread the blaze in the Angeles National Forest to nearly 41 square miles early Sunday, triggering the evacuation of nearly 1, 000 homes in Lake Hughes and Lake Elizabeth, officials said.

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The wind shifted in several directions, fanning the fire in the Angeles National Forest to nearly 9 square miles, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Nathan Judy.

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He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.

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In this case it was the family-friendly classic My Neighbor Totoro, in which sisters wandering in the forest meet King Totoro, a spirit whose powers include making the trees grow and the wind blow.

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