Norte Fire damages 6 Orange County homes as Santa Ana winds blow

Evacuations: Orders are in place for San Juan Capistrano Zones 4, 5 and 10 and San Clemente Zones 12 and 13. Shelters opened at the San Juan Capistrano Community Center and the San Clemente Community Center. The California Highway Patrol closed the Ortega Highway on-ramp to the southbound 5 Freeway, Capistrano Unified dismissed several schools early, and San Diego Gas & Electric said an outage that began at 11:31 a.m. affected 496 customers, CBS Los Angeles reported. OCFA spokesperson Steve Concialdi said one firefighter had mild heat exhaustion and was taken to a hospital, where he is doing well.

Malibu: The Bryson Fire, which started at about 4:41 p.m. Thursday near Encinal Canyon Road, had burned 146 acres and was 17% contained Friday with no structures lost and only minor injuries to fire personnel, Los Angeles County said. More than 414 personnel are assigned to it, and evacuation orders remain for zones KAN-U017 and SYC-U016-A, with warnings across a wider stretch of the Malibu coast. ABC7 reported about 100 structures were still threatened Friday morning and that the county Probation Department moved 38 youths out of the nearby Campus Vernon Kilpatrick. A third blaze, the Peak Fire in Azusa, had its forward progress stopped, ABC7 said.

The weather behind it: The National Weather Service has a Red Flag Warning for portions of Los Angeles and Ventura counties until 8 p.m. Saturday and a High Wind Warning for the Santa Ana Mountains and foothills through noon Saturday, with a heat advisory also running through Saturday evening, according to ABC7. 'Moderate to locally strong Santa Ana winds, combined with low humidity and dry vegetation, will keep the fire weather threat high across LA County today and into the weekend,' Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony C. Marrone said.

Timeline so far (Pacific time): Thursday about 4:41 p.m., the Bryson Fire starts near Encinal Canyon Road in Malibu. Friday 6 a.m., fire officials report it 17% contained at about 146 acres. Friday shortly after 11:30 a.m., the Norte Fire is reported in San Clemente. Shortly after 1 p.m., OCFA puts it at 250 acres. About 2:40 p.m., OCFA estimates 465 acres as homes burn in San Juan Capistrano.

What's still unknown: what caused either fire, the final count of homes damaged or destroyed in the Norte Fire, how much the Norte Fire grew after the 2:40 p.m. estimate, and how many more customers will lose power to planned Public Safety Power Shutoffs, which Los Angeles County's emergency management director said could increase.

This is a developing story and figures will change. The Norte Fire acreage is OCFA's estimate as of about 2:40 p.m. Friday. OCFA confirmed six homes damaged or destroyed; NBC Los Angeles said aerial images suggested eight or more, and ABC7 crews counted at least five destroyed. The 0% containment figure is from ABC7 citing OCFA and CAL FIRE. The causes of both fires had not been reported.