(Bloomberg) -- A major commuter artery in Los Angeles closedWednesday morning and some of the city’s wealthiest estates,including Rupert Murdoch’s Moragavineyard, were ordered evacuated as Southern Californiafirefighters battled several wind-fanned wildfires.

Stretches of Interstate 405 were shut and neighborhoods near thefreeway and Mulholland Drive, including parts of Bel-Air, werebeing evacuated, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Residents were warned bytext messages.

Skirball fire

The 405 connects the San Fernando Valley to Santa Monica and othermajor job centers on the west side of Los Angeles. Flames werevisible from the road, according to photos posted on social media.About 220 firefighters are on the scene of what is being called theSkirball fire, due to its proximity to the Skirball Cultural Center, a Jewish museum and eventsspace.

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A series of fires stretching from Ventura, California, about 65miles (105 kilometers) north of Los Angeles, to some of the city’sfar-flung suburbs prompted road closures and evacuations. More than150 structures were reported destroyed near Ventura on Tuesday.Dozens of schools in Ventura and Los Angeles counties wereclosed.

The Getty Center, a prominent museum nearby, was closed tothe public Tuesday and Wednesday to protect the collection fromsmoke damage, according to the center’s website.

Flames from a wildfire advance down a hillside near theSprings of Life Church in Casitas Springs, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec.5, 2017. Wind-driven fires tore through California communitiesTuesday for the second time in two months, leaving hundreds ofhomes feared lost and uprooting tens of thousands of people. (APPhoto/Noah Berger)

Murdoch estate

Murdoch’s Moraga Estate, where the media mogul operates a wineryand lives with wife Jerry Hall in a 7,500-square-foot house, is inthe evacuation zone. No one answered the phone at the estate earlyWednesday, and officials at Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. didn’timmediately respond to requests for comment. Murdoch acquired theproperty in 2013 for $28.8 million.

The University of California at Los Angeles is locatedadjacent of the evacuated area. The school said it’s closelymonitoring the situation.

The fires also cut the value of a major power provider in thearea. Shares of Edison International resumed declines on Wednesday,a day after their biggest slump in 15 years wiped out more than $3billion in market value.

President Donald Trump, who owns a home in Beverly Hills,tweeted that his thoughts and prayers were with Californiansaffected by the fires and thanked emergency personnel for theirwork.

Keep reading for more photos of the devastation in SouthernCalifornia:

A Los Angeles County firefighter puts water on a burningroof during a wildfire in the Lake View Terrace area of Los AngelesTuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Ferocious winds in Southern California havewhipped up explosive wildfires, burning a psychiatric hospital andscores of other structures. Tens of thousands of people have beenordered evacuated. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

A news photographer takes pictures of a wildfire in the LakeView Terrace area of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. (APPhoto/Chris Carlson)

James and Josie Ralstin carry belongings from their Ventura,Calif., home as flames from a wildfire consume another residence onTuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. The couple evacuated early Tuesday morningas the fire approached, but returned to retrieve medications andother property. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Smoke rises behind a leveled apartment complex as a wildfireburns in Ventura, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. (APPhoto/Noah Berger)

Bob Pazen's home is a smoldering ruin after after a wildfireswept through Ventura, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Pazen was inbed Monday night when his son came in and told them they needed toevacuate. Pazen, his wife, son and the family dog evacuated fromthe home, grabbing just a few pieces of clothing and jewelry. Whenhe came back to check on his home Tuesday morning, his house wasfine, but when he returned later, the house was fully engulfed inflames. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)

Flames and smoke shroud State Route 33 as a wildfire burnsin Ventura, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. (Daniel Dreifuss viaAP)

Flames consume a home on Via Arroyo as a wildfire rages inVentura, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/NoahBerger)

An apartment complex burns as a wildfire rages in Ventura,Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Flames consume a home on Via Arroyo as a wildfire rages inVentura, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/NoahBerger)

A truck drives along the 101 Freeway as a wildfire continuesto burn Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in Ventura, Calif. (APPhoto/Jae C. Hong)

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