Two dead, multiple structures burn as fast-moving fire in Hemet explodes

Two dead, multiple structures burn as fast-moving fire in Hemet explodes [Breaking]

Two people were killed and one person was injured Monday in a rapidly expanding fire near Hemet that burned at least seven structures, according to fire officials, while another fast-moving blaze in the San Bernardino Mountains near Big Bear Lake also prompted evacuation orders.

“This fire … was spreading very quickly before firefighters even got on scene,” a spokesman for the Riverside County Fire Department and the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said on a twitter livestream. Hemet hit a high of 110 degrees on Monday as searing heat enveloped the state. At sunset Monday, flames raged through the hills above houses as columns of smoke billowed into the sky, reaching the Orange County coast. The fire consumed cars and blackened trees. Television news showed aerial shots of structures engulfed in shooting flames.Some of the homes in the area could be reached on dirt roads, fire officials said. Residents on twitter noted that many in the area keep horses, complicated evacuations.

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