When the Coastal fire of May 11 blazed over 200 acres of Laguna Niguel, Javad Mokhbery received a text from a local city councilman saying his neighborhood was on fire.
Mokhbery, who is running for a seat on the Laguna Niguel City Council in the upcoming Nov. 8 election, quickly left his office in the city and went home to find the canyon near his backyard engulfed in flames.
“I honestly thought we lost the house,” he told The Epoch Times.
His house, along with the neighborhood, was ultimately spared, thanks to a shift in wind. But over 20 homes across the canyon were burned to ashes and more than 900 people were forced to evacuate….