New wildfire in Malibu: 400+ Acres, homes burning

[MonkeyFunk]

breaking on CNN. The Santa Ana's have kicked up strong.

They're establishing an evacuation center. Fire's about 300 acres now.

edit to fix the acreage. 100 homes in the area, 300 acres threatened.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. if it is arson again, do we call it civilfire?

or civilianfire?

[MonkeyFunk]

2. they don't know yet

fire's broke out about 3 hours ago. Captain said they knew the point of origin, but not the cause.

People are being evacuated down to the Coast Highway.

[MonkeyFunk]

3. Damn

now showing 5 or 6 hours engulfed in flames.

edit: the camera panned back - looks more like 15 or so houses now.

Hundreds have been evacuated.

[MonkeyFunk]

4. now 1500 acres

they're saying, and lots and lots of homes being destroyed.

[shadowknows69]

5. Bad news

Prayers going out for threatened residents of Malibu. Thanks for the updates Monkeyfunk.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Have you seen the footage?

It looks awful.

Being fanned by 60+ mph winds, and growing rapidly. 0% contained.

[slackmaster]

7. Smoke plume clearly visible on weather satellite images

[Mutineer]

8. Something like 35 homes destroyed at last count

and at one point it jumped the PCH. Not good.