Wildfire in Laguna Niguel burns 200 acres, multimillion-dollar homes | USA TODAY

Orange County Fire Authority officials said climate change has turned small fires that once would've been easily contained into extreme threats.

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The largest wildfire in the U.S. was spreading toward mountain resort towns in northern New Mexico, prompting officials to issue another set of warnings for more people to evacuate.

Meanwhile, a wildfire that erupted Wednesday afternoon in coastal Southern California raced through coastal bluffs of multimillion-dollar mansions, burning at least 20 homes, fire officials said. The flames were fanned by gusty ocean winds but they were dying down Wednesday night. No injuries were reported but several streets were ordered evacuated.

The fire, which occurred in Laguna Niguel, was relatively small at about 200 acres but the wind drove embers into palm trees, attics and dense, dry brush on slopes and steep canyons that hadn’t burned for decades, Brian Fennessy, chief of the Orange County Fire Authority, said at an evening news conference.

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8 comments

  1. Qur’an 30:41-42. 41. Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness].

    42. Say, [O Muhammad], “Travel through the land and observe how was the end of those before. Most of them were associators [of others with Allah].

    Qur’an 50:31. And to Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth – that He may recompense those who do evil with [the penalty of] what they have done and recompense those who do good with the best [reward] –

  2. Been hearing alot of explosions/booming noises throughout these past few days here in Los Angeles.

    Only thing that comes to mind is DEW.

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