A wind-driven wildfire raging along the California coast led to the evacuation of hundreds of homes and a university campus on Thursday.

According to Reuters, the largest of the blazes erupted at about 6:30 a.m. beside the U.S. 101 freeway, which is less than 10 miles inland from the Pacific coast. The flames quickly engulfed 6,500 acres of dry, dense chaparral and brush near the communities of Camarillo and Newbury Park, about 50 miles north of Los Angeles.

The outbreak of brush and wildfires marked a start to a fire season in California. Weather forecasters predict it will be worsen by a summer of high temperatures and drought throughout much of the U.S.' west.

This animation illustrates how to prepare homes for fire season.

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