LOS ANGELES:Two firefighters were injured and residents of a rustic Southern California canyon were driven from their homes after a blaze broke out overnight at a single-family home and tore across some 4,000 acres of dry brush and wooded hillsides.
Some 500 firefighters, aided by water-dropping aircraft, were still battling the flames, which sent smoke drifting across Orange and Los Angeles counties. The crews had not achieved any containment as of Thursday afternoon.
The Bond Fire, named for the street where it started, ignited around 10 p.m. on Wednesday night and was quickly whipped through Silverado Canyon in Orange County by gusty Santa Ana winds.
“I got a text message from my neighbor saying ‘Are you okay? Your street is on fire,’” said Giovanna Gibson, 60, who lives on Bond Street. She was at her small business office near John Wayne Airport at the time.
Gibson said she wouldn’t have received that warning had she been home in Silverado Canyon, which has little cell…