In the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 26, the Orange County Fire Authority reported that a one-acre vegetation fire was ignited by unknown causes near the 241 Toll Road.

In a series of tweets, Wednesday, OCFA gave more details on the vegetation fire that took more than 50 firefighters to extinguish.

In a phone call with Irvine Weekly, Thanh Nguyen, OCFA Fire Captain and Public Information Officer, said the call came in at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

Nguyen added that one fire fighter sustained a non-life threatening injury.

“The call came in at 3:32 a.m. The fire was confined to 1.66 acres, no structures threatened, and the cause is under investigation,” Nguyen said. “I don’t know what the knock down time was, but it started at 3:32, and so we did have crews out there throughout the day to walk the parameter and mop up hot spots.”

Nguyen, who has been with OCFA for more than two decades, said he would not speculate on how the blaze started, but that the cause is currently under investigation.

In terms of weather, Nguyen said that wind, the on-going drought and dry fuel can create the ideal conditions for wildfires to spark – regardless of heat.

“As far as the conditions go, as we all are aware of, we’re in a drought condition, and so the field is dry, the humidity was a little on the lower side, and I think there was some wind out there, also,” he said. “Whatever the cause was — it’s just dry conditions and it just took off.”

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