Fire in Malibu *
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Wrap: Four homes and a guest house destroyed, four other structures damaged. Full containment by 8 pm. The blog Code 6 Charles monitored the scanners and pros checked the fire's progress in a thread at LACountyFire.com.

Update (7:27 pm): Channel 4 went to national news at 7 pm, Channel 7 just switched over to "Wheel of Fortune," and Channel 2 is filling. No spread in quite a while, and things seem to be calming down. Veronique de Turenne has photos shot from Point Dume up at Here in Malibu.

Update (5:57 pm): Cautious optimism that hand crews might get a circle around the burning homes and contain the spread. The fire broke out at 5 pm on Pacific Coast Highway at Malibu Canyon Road. The county put 300 firefighters on the scene pretty quick. Ten structures have burned.

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Wildly out of control. Structures Homes burning on the beach and along Old Malibu Road. Live on 2, 4 and 7.

Just this morning, Veronique observed that the Santa Anas have been blowing for 36 hours. County Fire Capt. Mike Brown is on Channel 2 saying gusts are hitting 60 miles an hour.

Channel 2 copter pilot (5:47 pm:) "Just no good news here." Fire is spreading west along the beach, which is to say up the coast.

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