Private Community in California Catches Fire.
Oct 17, 2026
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AI GeneratedA chaotic day in Orange County is captured through footage of a fast-moving fire in San Juan. Driven by intense offshore winds, the fire spread rapidly, destroying several homes. The video highlights the emergency response, including aerial firefighting efforts and a local resident's bravery in helping elderly neighbors evacuate.
Not a dull moment here in Orange County.
We're going down, checking out the fire sunset right now.
It's a real nice sunset,
but it's also looking a little extra orange and weird
because there was a fire in San Juan today.
It was a little scary close to home.
Pretty insane day of offshore winds.
Definitely fueled the fire pretty damn well.
And that thing got out of control very fast.
It went from zero to 100 really fast
because of all the winds.
I had a buddy, Jack, who's a madman.
He basically drove into the community to go check it out
and got really close
and ended up helping out some elderly people get out
of their house and stuff.
So he's a champ for doing that.
He got some pretty insane footage of being right in the action.
But, yeah, it was a serious fire.
There were some houses that burnt and one that's still burning.
looks like the fire is pretty much controlled
or not they say zero percent containment but
i think the fire kind of burnt itself out
and um it looks like they have it pretty under control
other than a couple smoldering spots
so that is the good news yeah didn't make it down to the
Crystal Cove Crack today i apologize
but the waves weren't that big today and the tides uh
weren't that that crazy either
so my guess is that there's not much that happened there other than
maybe a couple little little dirt calvings
but um yeah we're gonna definitely check it out over the
next few days and see what it's looking like after
um after a day of letting it sit and marinate so
yeah thank you all for watching the videos it's
been kind of crazy lately everyone really likes
to see what's going on with the beaches here in Orange County
and um and we're gonna try to keep
the action coming looks like there's more waves on the way for Sunday
and uh we'll be we'll be
trying to get get a piece of it if you're
not subscribed yet would be stoked if you did thank
you guys for watching we'll leave you
with the San Juan fire sunset down here it's nice there's
not too many signs of smoke anymore
so beautiful day at the beach you want to go check the crack
at Crystal Cove not at all not even just
a little bit all right well we check this
in that
one fire
out
instead
I have
to make
a drop
probably
right on
the fire
there
it
is we
have
a
hot
spot
right
here there goes that one
that helicopter
just dumped
copters are really
fast man you must
pick up water over
the hill or over
there or something there's probably four
or five helicopters on this right now
call that dark white smoke
is from the water hitting
the fire probably
a helicopter dropping
water like every two minutes
right now looks like that was a
direct hit there's some white
smoke coming up why
can't they dump the
big dog on the fire
i take out a bunch
of other houses
it's just been on film dude the roof is fully
a hole in the roof i was watching that fire
on the news like sees better
than our eyes it's crazy oh
my gosh look at the
billowing oh you're right you just discovered your phone can do that I
don't know
how you
do the grid
thing you
just dump the
daddy load
on people get
out of the house on this like cloud went over my head of smoke
and had to get on
my bike it's gonna
crash it's crazy
the evacuation
no kind of but like
our house it's
right and this
is all the evacuation i think they're fighting
the fire anymore oh that's way worse what's going
on oh there's another one where in that lady
was right there's another one closer to in laguna beach
no it's still like between
this and the camp pendleton one another one over there camp
pendleton that one started yesterday no this one it's
a new one oh really oh yeah yeah new little
dog yeah yeah you're like okay
I got TikTok on one side really
not everything look how nice these
houses are it's all fire retardant on the trees
and on the houses they've made a really good
blockade definitely still
a little hot spot there they're
working on still very much
so on fire and
then off in the distance there's a couple
of houses that were just burnt to the ground
non-stop
sketchy
little spot
right down
there as well

