BREAKING: Fire Crews Battling Growing Brush Fire in Aliso Wood Canyon

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Fire crews are battling an approximately 3-acre vegetation fire in Aliso Woods Canyon, according to the Orange County Fire Authority.

“We are in unified command with (the Laguna Beach Fire Department),” OCFA said in a tweet at 3:43 p.m. “We have heavy resources on the ground and in the air.”

Smoke from the fire could be seen from miles away, in the South County cities of Dana Point, San Clemente.

Some neighborhoods in Laguna Niguel have been given an evacuation order, according to a tweet from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department at 4:35 p.m.

Members of OCFA Division 5, which serves Aliso Viejo, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Woods, and Lake Forest, are on the scene, near the South Orange County Wastewater Authority’s Coastal Treatment Plant in Laguna Hills, according to PulsePoint, an emergency information app.

A call was first received at 2:43 p.m., according to PulsePoint.

This is a developing story.

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