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Fire! Apartment complex blaze damages eight units on Central Coast, leaving 20 people homeless

A Wednesday morning apartment complex fire displaced 20 people in Vandenberg Village.
Ventura County Fire Department
A Wednesday morning apartment complex fire displaced 20 people in Vandenberg Village.

No one hurt in early morning blaze in Vandenberg Village near Lompoc.

Fire hit a Central Coast apartment complex, damaging eight units and leaving 20 people homeless.

The blaze was discovered at around 4 a.m. Wednesday in a building on the 3900 block of Mesa Circle Drive in Vandenberg Village.

Santa Barbara County firefighters knocked down the blaze in around a half hour. Four second story units suffered fire and smoke damage, while four lower units had significant water damage.

The Red Cross was called out to help the displaced families and individuals.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.