Crime & Safety

Watch: Aerial Shots as DC-10 Drops Retardant Near Lake Elsinore Fire

This footage shot from the KTLA news helicopter provides a unique vantage point as a DC-10 tanker drops fire retardant on the Falls Fire.

A massive wildfire that broke out around the Ortega Highway near Lake Elsinore Monday has burned an estimated 1,500 acres.

Watch the attached video captured by KTLA news of the firefighting efforts from above.  

For all the latest on acreage, containment and evacuations related to the Falls Fire, be sure to keep checking our main news story here.


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