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seen in a 360-degree direction and a smoldering husk. the thing that's so bizarre about this fire and how quickly and ven nously it moved through this neighborhood. last night at 5:00 it was three acres. then firefighters watched it, it jumped to five acres, then 40 acres and then exploded to hundreds of acres, racing up the side of the canyon next to us, cresting over the canyon, leaping onto homes, the roofs of homes, raining down embers and hopping home to home to home until more than 20 homes have been completely destroyed here. it's bizarre to think this is happening in may. i'm wearing a jacket. it very early in the season. climate change has exacerbated a lot of what's happening here in california, including this mega drought we've been in for years, making conditions extremely dry, including here in orange county, allowing almost a runway for those flames to shoot through. if this is what is happening in may, california needs to brace