PHOTOS: Fire rips through dry brush at Solimar Beach

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Sunday, December 27, 2015
Ventura County Air Unit Copter 7 captures an early morning image of the ring of fire at Solimar Beach.
A roadway sign for the Pacific Coast Highway burns in the Solimar Beach fire.
Plumes of smoke billow out from the dry brush burning in the hills of Ventura near Solimar Beach on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
A helicopter pilot works to drop fire on the flames at Solimar Beach on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
Smoke billows from the hilltops near Solimar Beach as a brush fire rips through dry brush on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
Reporter Chelsea Edwards captured a photo of a burned roadway sign near Ventura.
A bulldozer removes dry brush along the path of a wildfire burning in the Ventura hils on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
Bright flames are captured by AIR 7 HD as the Solimar Beach fire rushes through hillsides in Ventura.
A ring of fire burns through a Ventura hillside on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
AIR 7 HD captures images from above of the Solimar Beach fire burning the hillsides of Ventura on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
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PHOTOS: Fire rips through dry brush at Solimar BeachVentura County Air Unit Copter 7 captures an early morning image of the ring of fire at Solimar Beach.
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A large fast-moving brush fire ripped through the hillsides between Ventura and Carpinteria at Solimar Beach early Saturday morning.