Landslide in Laguna Beach, CA; Several homes gone

[Brent]

Laguna Beach Landslide Sends Homes Crashing Down Hill

POSTED: 8:20 am PDT June 1, 2005
UPDATED: 8:55 am PDT June 1, 2005

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. -- A landslide sent at least five expensive homes crashing down a hill and may have damaged many others Wednesday.

Fire department personnel had no estimate of the damage and there was no immediate word on whether there were any injuries.

Television helicopter footage showed smashed homes on heavily built-up Flamingo Road. The earth was still moving beneath the homes. Some fell nearly intact, while others were ripped apart and left trails of debris.

The steep coastal area has had slide problems before and several homes were red-tagged as uninhabitable in February during the second rainiest season on record in Southern California.

Laguna Beach is about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

[TexasStooge]

That's worse than the landslide near a lake in Irving. This one only took out a few backyards.