Four San Clemente buildings were red-tagged Wednesday after a landslide that followed heavy rains.
The Orange County Fire Authority evacuated three apartment buildings Wednesday morning due to the slide in the 1500 block of Buena Vista.
A fourth building was evacuated by Wednesday afternoon.
Buena Vista was closed to traffic, as was a trail that sits below the residences.
Footage posted on Twitter by the Orange County Fire Authority showed extensive damage to the rear of the residences, with patio furniture strewn on the hillside.
Some of the units were initially yellow-tagged, meaning they were damaged but still accessible to residents, before they were red-tagged over concerns that the hillside still is not settled, San Clemente Mayor Chris Duncan said.
Four buildings in San Clemente have been deemed unsafe after heavy rains caused a massive landslide along the coast Wednesday, forcing many evacuations.
No injuries were reported.
Clayton Robinson told KABC-TV, however, that he may have lost everything in the slide.
“We called our insurance and they said, well, they don’t cover hills going down,” Robinson told the station. “So all we have left is our faith in God.”
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