Firefighters used bulldozers, helicopters and planes to control a rapidly spreading blaze called the Airport Fire that started Monday in Trabuco Canyon, California and spread to about 3 square miles in only a few hours. The blaze was ignited by a spark from heavy equipment being used by public workers, officials said.
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00:00But it's going, it's going, it's going.
00:24When we woke up this morning, the fire was looking really good.
00:50I mean, it wasn't, there wasn't a lot of smoke and we really felt good about it.
00:55All of a sudden, this morning though, after breakfast, it seemed to just kind of blow
00:58up again.
01:00You can see fire coming over the ridge now.
01:02We've had flames coming up.
01:04It's getting a little scarier now.
01:06But interestingly enough, we had one of the firemen come down that's on the hand crews
01:09and he said, look, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
01:13So you're going to look at it, you're going to get nervous, it's going to be alarming.
01:17But we got this.
01:18We know it's coming.
01:19We've got a plan.
01:20We really are working and organizing and seem to be on top of everything.
01:25So we are trying to, as homeowners, just stay relaxed and calm through this process.