Foothill Ranch’s last stand is broken

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Firefighters battling the arson blaze racing toward thousands of homes in Foothill Ranch were forced to abandon a mountain peak where they had hoped to make a last stand.

Thirty-foot-tall flames and smoldering embers were bearing down on a Lake Forest neighborhood and residents were evacuating, after fire officials’ pleas for water-dropping helicopters went unanswered.

-- Mike Anton