Fire burns at least 20 homes in wealthy California town of Laguna Niguel

California (Reuters)- Campfire fueled by exceedingly dry encounter swept through the fat Southern California enclave of Laguna Niguel on Wednesday, destroying about 20 homes while scorching some 200 acres (80 hectares) and forcing evacuations, officers said. No injuries were reported.

Though fairly small compared with some other major pastoral backfires in western countries, the blaze dubbed the Coastal Fire spread fleetly up the steep crests of the suburban Orange County community with autumn winds.
Video posted on social media showed multimillion- bone homes consumed with orange dears and waves of black bank, while bordering homes appeared untouched.
Resident Tim Wheaton said there was only one exit point for numerous of the affected homes, creating business traffic as people tried to void.
“People crying and hugging one another and buses full of I assume the most precious particulars from their homes,”Wheaton told Reuters in a Twitter converse, describing the scene.
An estimated 20 homes burned, though that number could rise, Brian Fennessy, fire chief of the Orange County Fire Authority, told a news conference.
Evacuations were ordered for about 100 homes, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.
As California endures a major failure aggravated by climate change, encounter that could typically repel fire is consumed with ever lesser speed, Fennessy said.
“These fires are taking off and running on us. And they are burning veritably snappily, not inescapably burning thousands and thousands of acres, but enough that it’s burning snappily and into the structures,”Fennessy said.
There were no other major fires in Southern California, enabling firefighters from the area to concentrate coffers on Laguna Niguel, the chief said.
The hilltop megacity of about people, numerous of whom enjoy spectacular ocean views, is just inland from the megacity of Laguna Beach, about 50 country miles (80 km) south of Los Angeles.