'It is a dangerous new normal': Wildfire tears through Southern California city, burning at least two-dozen homes and prompting a local state of emergency.
, burning 31 homes and prompting a local state of emergency, signaled a dangerous start to the state’s fire season, the local fire chief said Thursday.
“This is a fire that was driven by winds that happen up here every day,” he said. “Humidities were 70 percent or better. This was a normal day. Yet we burned 200 acres very quickly and lost 24 homes. That is not something that we see ever.”As of Thursday afternoon, roughly 900 homes were under evacuation orders and 550 firefighters were working to contain the blaze in and around Laguna Niguel in Orange County, roughly 50 miles south of Los Angeles, local fire officials said.
The cause of the fire, which broke out Wednesday afternoon in Aliso Woods Canyon — an area Fennessy described as “extremely steep” and dry — remains under investigation.
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