A quick-moving wildfire burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp, and the blaze grew without containment on Wednesday.

The fire rapidly expanded to about 10 square miles (26 square kilometers), in size, forcing the evacuation Tuesday of the Chinese Camp Town and surrounding highways, according to CalFire, the state’s chief fire agency. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths.

It is one of several fires called the TCU September Lighting Complex, which has burned more than 12,473 acres, or 19 square miles (50 square kilometers), in multiple locations in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties as of early Wednesday with no containment, according to Cal Fire.

At least five homes were burning in the rural tow

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