The Solar Impulse -- considered the world's most-advanced sun-powered plane -- left Moffett Field in Mountain View near San Francisco just after dawn Friday.
The fire 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles mushroomed to 43 square miles Friday as 900 firefighters used engines, aircraft, bulldozers and other equipment to battle the flames.
A consultant for the town said a task force of 28 local elected officials likely wouldn't make a decision Friday night and will return for another meeting next week.
The Ventura County Fire Department called Friday for residents to immediately leave homes along a two-mile length of Potrero Road on the southern edge of city of Thousand Oaks.
U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in April, and hiring was much stronger in the previous two months than the government first estimated. The job increases helped reduce the unemployment rate from 7.6 percent to a four-year low of 7.5 percent.
Ten U.S. states -- including a long uninterrupted stretch from New York to Maine -- now allow gay and lesbians to marry now that gay marriage legislation has been signed into law in Rhode Island.