Orange County fires
A firefighter aims a stream of water at a home on Olinda Drive in Brea. Strong winds blew through the Carbon Canyon area and drove embers into the attic. This home and the house next door were lost to the fire. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
The Freeway Complex fire moved so fast that a truck heading to protect homes soon after the blaze started had to be diverted to save colleagues in peril. Orange County authorities say 113 homes were destroyed by the wildfire.
A crew of 14 was working to clear brush by hand from a valley below the Hollydale Mobile Home Estates on Carbon Canyon Road in Brea when the wind shifted, fanning flames toward them. The team was ordered to retreat at about 2 a.m.
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A hillside burns in Brea as a firefighter listens to commands on his radio.
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A driving wind blows embers from the ruins of a burned house on Heather Ridge in Yorba Linda. Six homes in this hilltop neighborhood burned to the ground.
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Smoke from the Corona and Yorba Linda fires looms.
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A firefighter hoses down a fully engulfed home on Big Horn Mountain Way in Yorba Linda. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Brea residents are showered in sparks during a sudden flare-up of wind-driven flames, visible from their backyard at the end of Bob White Road. Firefighters were on hand, and no homes caught fire on this street.
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Firefighters advance on a mobile home in Carbon Canyon as wind-driven embers ignite the landscaping. The home was destroyed by the fire.
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Some homes smolder and others are still ablaze in Yorba Linda.
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A firefighter sprays water on a patch of fire along the 57 Freeway in Brea.
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A firefighter signals to an engine to release water as fire jumps Wildcat Lane near Brea Olinda High School in Brea.
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Flames engulf homes in a Yorba Linda neighborhood. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters battle a blaze on Big Horn Mountain Way in Yorba Linda. Several homes on the street were lost.
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A firefighter hangs his head while waiting for water on Big Horn Mountain Way in Yorba Linda. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
A firefighter mans a water canon to defend a Hills condominium complex in Yorba Linda.
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A whimsical yard fountain in the garden of an evacuated residence at Hollydale Mobile Home Estates in Brea contrasts with Downey Fire Department firefighters monitoring an advancing fire early this morning.
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Orange County Animal Control officers search for the bodies of several dogs at a home on Heather Ridge Drive. The pets were in the garage when the fire hit.
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One of numerous luxury homes in Yorba Linda is left to burn as a perfect storm of wind and dry air made for poor firefighting conditions.
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A storm of embers rains down from trees that caught fire in the Hollydale mobile home park on Carbon Canyon Road in Brea.
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Masako Saigusa glows red as flames approach her home on Brea Hills Avenue in Brea. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times.)
Matt Woods, 18, of Yorba Linda hugs his girlfriend, Adrianna Mrozek, 17, of Placentia as they prepare to evacuate the area around Second and Walnut streets in Yorba Linda.
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Orange County firefighters use a remote-controlled extension ladder to douse any lingering embers in the ruins of a home at Heatheridge and Cardiff drives in Yorba Linda.
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An Orange County firefighter gets help from a La Palma and Cypress police officers hosing down a home on Willow Tree Lane in Yorba Linda. (Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times)
Brea Canyon High School’s sign and nearby trees are blackened by the fire.
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Sprinklers wet down a classroom singed by the fire at Brea Canyon High School.
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Patrick Franks, 11, hugs his beloved dog Scamp while taking a break from digging for any salvageable items in the ruins of his familys home, which burned to the ground in Yorba Linda. Hes the first thing I rescued, Patrick said with a wide smile, recounting how his family evacuated as flames shot up the back side of their house.
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In Chino Hills, Nick Terrones throws a flare to start a “back burn” on the eastern side of Chino Hills State Park. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
A firefighter keeps watch over an oil well on
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Smoke from Orange County fires all but obliterates the afternoon sun off Huntington Beach.
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Firefighters who drove all night from central
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Kusum Arora, center, is surrounded by family and friends after seeing her home on Big Horn Mountain Way in Yorba Linda. Her family’s home was completely destroyed when the Freeway Complex Fire blew out of the hills and into the neighborhood Saturday. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
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Hanna Haroutounian looks through the remains of her home on Big Horn Mountain Way in Yorba Linda. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
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Bill Moss holds his fiancee, Mary Anzueto, as they wait for a chance to see what damage, if any, was done to their apartment at the Cascades in Anaheim Hills. With them is Amada Anzueto, Mary Anzueto’s daughter-in-law.
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Jebb Harris put out a sign to thank Brea firefighters and others for helping save his Olinda Drive home. Harris’ neighbors, Jack and Verlyn Prestage, were the only Olinda village residents to lose their home to the wildfire. At one point, the Olinda village and Hollydale communities were surrounded by fire. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
