Laguna Niguel

The Coastal Fire started in Aliso Woods Canyon and quickly burned uphill into a Laguna Niguel neighborhood above the Orange County coast. At least 20 homes burned and 900 were evacuated.

We’re learning more about what may have caused last month’s coastal fire that destroyed 20 homes and damaged many others in the Aliso Woods Canyon. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on June 3, 2022.

Exactly one week after the brush fire that would become the Coastal Fire first sparked in Orange County, families affected by the destruction are suing SoCal Edison for allegedly causing the blaze.

The first lawsuit in last week’s fire that destroyed homes in Laguna Niguel was filed. As seen on Tuesday, May 17, 2022.

Compelling pictures taken inside the Laguna Woods church Sunday after parishioners tackled and hogtied a mass shooting suspect were released Monday. The powerful images show a group of congregants holding down the 68-year-old suspected shooter, who authorities say traveled to the Geneva Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods in Orange County from Las Vegas, Nevada.

The destructive Coastal Fire is now 100% contained, according to the Orange County Fire Authority. The wildfire tore through a Laguna Niguel neighborhood and destroyed 20 homes, damaging another 11.

The pastor and his wife in the Laguna Woods church shooting recall the moment when shots rang out. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on May 16, 2022.

Compelling pictures taken inside the Laguna Woods church Sunday after parishioners tackled and hogtied a mass shooting suspect were released Monday. The powerful images show a group of congregants holding down the 68-year-old suspected shooter, who authorities say traveled to the Geneva Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods in Orange County from Las Vegas, Nevada.

The sheriff describes the heroic actions of the man killed in the OC church shooting.

Authorities Monday have identified the man killed when a gunman opened fire Sunday inside a Southern California church as John Cheng, a 52-year-old physician.

Firefighters with the Orange County Fire Authority have brought the destructive Coastal Fire down to 90% containment as of Monday morning, just days after the blaze tore through a Laguna Niguel neighborhood.

Three days after the Coastal Fire first sparked on Wednesday in Orange County, hundreds of firefighters continue their work. The fire is now at 40% containment and is 200 acres in size.

Some homeowners count their blessings because their homes were saved but others feel lucky that small items survived. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, May 12, 2022..

Video shows the destruction left by the Coastal Fire a day after it burned homes in Laguna Niguel.

Southern California Edison says it has let state utility regulators know that “circuit activity” was detected at about the same time a brush fire started in the hills above the Orange County coast and quickly burned uphill into a neighborhood.

Timelapse video shows the Coastal Fire spread at sundown.

Sunrise shows what happened overnight in an Orange County neighborhood with homes destroyed by the Coastal Fire. Video broadcast Thursday May 12, 2022 on Today in LA.

At least 20 homes were burned in Laguna Niguel after a brush fire spread through the southern California city.

Time-lapse video shows the Coastal Fire as it spread in an Orange County canyon and burned uphill into a neighborhood, where it burned at least 20 homes and forced evacuations.

Evacuations were ordered as homes burned in a Laguna Niguel neighborhood where a wildfire fanned by ocean winds climbed a brush-covered hillside.