UPDATE: California Fire Destroys Homes

Dozens of homes have been destroyed as a wind-driven brush fire roared through the hills Thursday in the Southern California coastal town of Montecito.

According to a fire department spokesperson, a quarter of the community's 10,000 people had been evacuated as of Thursday evening.

The fire began shortly before 6 p.m. and quickly moved through more than 300 acres in the foothills five miles south of Santa Barbara.