Video taking off 36x its usual first day

Norte Fire spares one house and levels the one next door

FOX 10 Phoenix's Short pairs an Orange County homeowner's mixed relief with injured firefighters and a second fire burning near Malibu.

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FOX 10 Phoenix Story of October 18, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 140,915 views a day, 36 times a normal first day on this channel (3,884).

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"I mean, it's one of those bittersweet, right, because our neighbor's is a total loss, and ours is not touched." That is how a homeowner near the Norte Fire describes coming back to her street. The house beside hers, she says, "collapsed on itself."

The Phoenix station's report starts in its own studio before moving to aerial footage over Orange County. There the fire has burned more than 570 acres near San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente and destroyed at least six homes. A fire official at an outdoor briefing sums up the conditions crews faced: "The wind was relentless." Two firefighters were injured and taken to a local hospital. Mandatory evacuation orders cover about 16,000 residents, and the description says containment stood at zero.

In the closing stretch the report moves north to the Bryson Fire near Malibu. More than 400 firefighters had it close to 40 percent contained, while gusts near 70 miles per hour drove power shutoffs that left hundreds of thousands of people in the region without electricity.

The Short reached nearly 140,000 views in its first day, and its comment section was many times busier than usual. The most common messages are prayers for the two injured firefighters. Many viewers also ask how the fire started, and others wonder what is still left to burn after last year's fires.

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