A Southern California wildfire has destroyed 132 structures, mostly homes, in less than two days, fire officials said Thursday.
Flames from the Mountain Fire leap along a hillside as a horse stands in an enclosure at Swanhill Farms in Moorpark, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. has destroyed 132 structures, mostly homes, in less than two days, fire officials said Thursday as raging winds were forecast to ease.
Fire officials said 88 other structures were damaged but did not specify whether they had been burned or affected by water or smoke damage. “This was their forever retirement home,” Barton said Thursday. “Now in their 70s, they have to start over.” Santa Anas are dry, warm and gusty northeast winds that blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore, moving in the opposite direction of the normal onshore flow that carries moist air from the Pacific. They typically occur during the fall months and continue through winter and into early spring.
Marcus Eriksen, who has a farm in Santa Paula, said firefighters kept embers from spreading to his home, his vehicles and other structures even as piles of compost and wood chips were engulfed.
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