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California wildfires: 20 homes burned in San Diego retirement community

California wildfires: 20 homes burned in San Diego retirement community
Posted at 6:33 PM, Dec 07, 2017
and last updated 2017-12-07 20:33:44-05

At least 20 homes have burned in a retirement community as a wildfire surges through northern San Diego County.

The homes are burning in the tightly-packed Rancho Monserate Country Club community in the small city of Fallbrook.

The wind-whipped blaze erupted Thursday afternoon and authorities say it's moving dangerously fast.

Two people have been burned and about 4 square miles of land have been blackened.

The blaze is one of at least five destructive fires burning in Southern California. A fire that flared Thursday afternoon in the Murrieta area of Riverside County, north of San Diego County, has destroyed at least one home.