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Comedian Kevin Hart and his driver suffered "major back injuries" in a car crash in the Malibu Hills late Saturday night, a report said. Police sources told TMZ a Plymouth Barracuda belonging to Hart, 40, veered off the road on the Mulholland Highway. The vehicle turned up in a ditch about 10 feet off the side of the winding road after it smashed through a wooden fence. Hart was not driving at the time and his driver was not drinking, the report said. The roof of the Barracuda was almost completely crushed in the crash.

MALIBU, Calif. — Residents were ordered to evacuate their homes early today ahead of a wildfire that scorched about 100 acres in the hills above Malibu as the dry Santa Ana wind returned to Southern California. The blaze began shortly before 3:30 a.m. PST near Malibu Lake on state park land, said Los Angeles County fire Capt. Mike Brown. Some residents who live in the canyons above Malibu were ordered to leave, Brown said, but it wasn't immediately clear how many. No injuries were reported. About 160 firefighters were on scene and the cause of the fire was being investigated....