Freeway Complex Fire
The Freeway Complex Fire was a 2008 wildfire in the Santa Ana Canyon area of Orange County, California. The fire started as two separate fires on November 15, 2008. The Freeway Fire started first shortly after 9 am with the Landfill Fire igniting approximately 2 hours later. These two separate fires merged a day…
Where it happened
Chino Hills State Park, as Wikidata places it.
- Wildfires
The record
- Date
- November 15, 2008
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Where
- Chino Hills State Park
- Country
- United States
What happened
The Freeway Complex Fire was a 2008 wildfire in the Santa Ana Canyon area of Orange County, California. The fire started as two separate fires on November 15, 2008. The Freeway Fire started first shortly after 9 am with the Landfill Fire igniting approximately 2 hours later. These two separate fires merged a day later and ultimately destroyed 314 residences in Anaheim Hills and Yorba Linda.
Sources
Wikidata Q5501244 (CC0); text from Wikipedia, “Freeway Complex Fire”, CC BY-SA 4.0.