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NORTH COUNTY — A wildfire fanned by unprecedented December Santa Ana

winds was running unchecked across the North County Thursday, chewing

through neighborhoods and prompting thousands to flee as the flames

spread dangerously fast toward the more populated coast.

By 8

p.m., the Lilac fire had grown to 4,100 acres and had zero containment,

adding to the conflagration of wildfires wreaking havoc across Southern

California this week.

At least three civilians trying to evacuate were injured in the blaze, which roared through Bonsall — a rural community of horses, livestock and agricultural lands — and into Oceanside. A fourth civilian suffered smoke inhalation. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in the county.