The wildfire has caused significant damage in Camarillo Heights, Ventura County, with 132 structures destroyed and 88 more damaged as of Friday morning.
New satellite images show several areas of the neighborhood before and after.
The image below shows a detailed street on the left on October 21st, a few weeks before the fire broke out. The house is located on a hilly area and surrounded by bushes.
On the right, you can see the same area on Thursday after the fire had passed. The devastation is clear. Most of the houses have been burnt down and the surrounding bushes are scorched.
The fire had grown to more than 20,400 acres by Thursday evening, forcing thousands of people to evacuate and straining local resources.
It was pushed into the hilly communities around Camarillo and Moorpark by offshore winds that the National Weather Service deemed “particularly dangerous.”
The image below shows another area of Camarillo that was also destroyed by fire.
On October 21, on the left, dozens of houses look like an oasis in the parched landscape, complete with pools and lush surroundings. On Thursday (right), more than half of the house was gone and the once blue swimming pool turned black.
Santa Ana’s fierce winds are expected to ease somewhat on Friday, reducing the chance of further fire spread.
By Saturday morning, the fire had burned more than 20,630 acres and was 17% contained. But more than 11,700 structures remain under threat, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The video below shows huge smoke from the fire being blown by Santa Ana winds as part of Camarillo Heights burned Wednesday.
