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As firefighters increase containment against Ventura County’s devastating Mountain fire, new access to burned areas has revealed even more damage from the blaze that exploded last week during an exceptional wind event.

“Again, this is not a red flag event and this is not anything close to when the fire started — so I’d look at this wind test as a good thing to test the containment lines.”

Authorities said New Jersey’s Jennings Creek Wildfire had reached 10% containment by Sunday night.

As winds started to subside Thursday night, firefighters made their first inroads against the blaze, reaching 5% containment.

Around 3 p.m., about six hours after the fire was first spotted, it had exploded to almost 9,000 acres without any containment, burning dozens of homes to a crisp.