California wildfires burn through coastal neighborhood | WNT

the massive wildfire in southern california homes and cars going up in flames the flames racing up this hill in fact toward homes where families had little time to prepare before their homes were fully engulfed in flames abc's chief national correspondent matt guppin from the scene tonight that firestorm tearing through this neighborhood in california's orange county firefighters bracing against the blast furnace heat as homes and cars explode in flames the fire breaking out in laguna miguel just after 2 30 wednesday afternoon at least 20 houses destroyed many others damaged this goes on for house after house all that's left is the smoldering wreckage and so much of this place we saw one of the residents ritz sherman surveying the damage well there's a lot of people in this community i know they lost there you look around here i just can't imagine officials predicting we'll see more freak fires like this with the climate change the fuels beds are so dry that fire like this is going to be more commonplace david yesterday was cool with relatively high humidity not what they call fire weather here but fire officials tell us we have to stop being surprised by fires like this they say this is the reality of this situation david matt gutman on the scene in california thank you matt hi everyone george stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the abc news youtube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our channel and don't forget to download the abc news app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching

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Length: 1min 42sec (102 seconds)

Published: Fri May 13 2022