Title: A%20view%20of%20the%20North%20Lake%20Arrowhead%20fire%20from%20Lake%20Arrowhead%20Village.%20(Submitted%20to%20YourScene%20By%20Jesse)
1A view of the North Lake Arrowhead fire from Lake
Arrowhead Village.(Submitted to YourScene By
Jesse)
2Luke Schroder,14, looks at the smoke-filled sky
after surfing last Sunday in Malibu. Evacuations
and road closures kept many from the
beach.(Richard Hartog / Los Angeles
Times)October 21, 2007
3Sunday morning on the beach in Malibu.(Submitted
to YourScene By Matt Doolin)
4View of the Witch Fire from the corner of Nordahl
and Mission in Escondido.(Submitted to YourScene
By Michelle)
5Smoke from the Lake Arrowhead fires drifts across
a blue sky seen from I-15 near Hesperia.(Submitte
d to Your Scene By Oceansider)
6An eerie cloud of smoke above a pocket of clean
air. Sierra exit on I-15(Submitted to YourScene
by kathy)
7Devore residents race to their car to evacuate
from a brush fire burning toward Glen Helen
Parkway last Sunday, the day the wind-whipped
firestorms began. Gusts of 75 mph were reported
in the area.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles
Times)October 21, 2007
8April Arrandt runs from the fire in Malibu early
last Sunday morning. The Canyon blaze would go on
to consume 4,565 acres and damage or destroy 22
structures. The car was not hers.(Ken Hively /
Los Angeles Times)October 21, 2007
9Evacuee Kendra Heathman, 15, wakes up with the
sun on Wednesday at Qualcomm Stadium in San
Diego. Kendra and her family, including their dog
Missy, rushed from their home as fire raced
through their Rancho Bernardo neighborhood.(Spenc
er Weiner / Los Angeles Times)October 24, 2007
10Ariel Yue peers from a tent at Qualcomm Stadium
in San Diego on Tuesday. Provisions, and
volunteers to give them to thousands of evacuees,
were abundant. The last of the evacuees departed
the stadium Friday, and the San Diego Chargers
announced they would play there Sunday, as
scheduled.(Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
11Darlene Rose tries to sleep in the front seat of
her pickup truck after 1 a.m. Friday. Rose fled
to the stables at the Del Mar Fairgrounds with
five horses after fire for a time threatened her
Ramona home. "Things are bad right now, but I am
living my dream," she says of being able to breed
quarter horses. She lost a home in the 2003 Cedar
fire.(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)October
26, 2007
12In an almost artistic display, a plane drops fire
retardant onto a blaze in the hills above Malibu
as seen from Cold Canyon Road on Monday
afternoon.(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles
Times)October 22, 2007
13An air tanker drops fire retardant along Hume
Road in Malibu on Monday in an attempt to keep
the flames from crossing Las Flores Canyon and
moving into Topanga Canyon.(Annie Wells / Los
Angeles Times)October 22, 2007
14A helicopter sprays Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park
with water.(Submitted to Your Scene By Alex
Miroshnichenko)
15A Super Scooper at Lake Sherwood.(Submitted to
YourScene by rt archer)
16A fire plane drops water at Stevenson Ranch fire
on Monday.(Submitted to YourScene By bsetter)
17Smoke billows in Stevenson Ranch, near Magic
Mountain, threatening homes Monday. About 15,000
residents were evacuated from the area as fires
erupted. By Thursday, the blaze was fully
contained and burned 2,824 acres.(Anne Cusack /
Los Angeles Times)October 22, 2007
18A super tanker drops water on the Stevenson Ranch
fire Monday afternoon southwest of the Magic
Mountain entrance.(Submitted to YourScene By
bsetter)
19A firefighting helicopter passes over Amy Berling
while she hoses the yard of a friend as flames
approach the south Escondido home Tuesday
afternoon.(Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles
Times)October 23, 2007
20Capt Chris Eng. Bill of Brea Fire
Department.(Submitted to Your Scene By John)
21The firefighters heading into to battle with the
Buckweed fire.(Submitted to YourScene by Matt
Pulley)
22The Running Springs Fire as seen from
Redlands.(Submitted to YourScene By Ashlie)
23Firefighters pull in to fight the Stevenson Ranch
Magic Mountain Fire.(Submitted to YourScene By
bsetter)
24A view of the fires from a neighborhood near
Portola Hills.(Submitted to YourScene by Cesar)
25Chuck Toland, a corrections officer, removes a
flag from the entrance to Valley Oaks Mobile
Ranch in Fallbrook on Monday. More than 200
homes, many of them at the mobile home park, have
been destroyed in the Rice fire in northern San
Diego County.(Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles
Times)October 22, 2007
26The Santiago Fire rages above Foothill
Ranch.(Submitted to YourScene By jwlchr)
27Firefighters get pelted with retardant dropped by
a helicopter on the Malibu fire as it heads down
the hillside toward a structure on Pacific Coast
Highway last Sunday. Firefighters beating back
flames amid gusts of up to 50 mph saved the
building.(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles
Times)October 21, 2007
28A house goes up in flames at City Creek Road and
Highway 330 in Running Springs on Tuesday. More
than 200 homes have been lost in the Slide fire
in San Bernardino County.(Irfan Khan / Los
Angeles Times)October 23, 2007
29Malibu Presbyterian Church, a 60-year-old house
of worship that barely escaped destruction in the
1993 infernos, was left a collection of charred,
twisted wood and concrete columns after the
blaze. "We will rebuild," Pastor Greg Hughes
said. "We will gather together. We will plan and
be stronger."(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles
Times)October 21, 2007
30Hand crews from the U.S. Forest Service retreat
from flames Tuesday before the arrival of a
water-dropping helicopter in a canyon north of
Castaic and west of the 5 Freeway. The Ranch fire
in that area has consumed more than 58,000
acres.(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)October 23,
2007
31Twelve firefighters trapped by flames atop a
ridge off Santiago Canyon Road in Orange County
on Monday scramble into aluminum fire shelters.
The two crews of six men each were on a slope
putting out hot spots when flames roared up the
hillside, surrounding them with hot, burning
brush and leaving them no escape route. The
firefighters were examined at the scene by
paramedics and refused to go to the
hospital.(Karen Tapia / Los Angeles
Times)October 22, 2007
32David Ottesen, 16, tries to douse embers before
firefighters reach his and his parents' property
on Bent Tree Court in Poway on Monday. They just
went to town on every single flame that was in
our backyard, said David, a high school junior.
We probably wouldnt have a house if they hadnt
come.(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)October
22, 2007
33A firefighter attacks flames at the Canyon Breeze
Village Mobile Home Park in Santa Clarita, where
a brush fire would burn about 10 acres on
Monday.(Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles
Times)October 22, 2007
34The Grass Valley fire northwest of Lake Arrowhead
has consumed more than 160 structures across more
than 1,110 acres, including this neighborhood
viewed Monday.(Carlos Chavez / Los Angeles
Times)October 22, 2007
35Firefighters battle a blaze that destroyed
several homes in Green Valley Lake, near Lake
Arrowhead, on Monday.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles
Times)October 22, 2007
36A house burns on Circle View Drive in Running
Springs near Lake Arrowhead as a firefighter
talks on a two-way radio Tuesday. The wildfires
destroyed about 300 homes around Lake
Arrowhead.(Richard Hartog / Los Angeles
Times)October 23, 2007
37Several homes are threatened as flames burn a
hillside near Running Springs on Tuesday(Robert
Durell / Los Angeles Times)October 23, 2007
38Firefighter Jason Falarski battles to save a
house in Poway on Monday. For many in San Diego
County, the scene was reminiscent of the deadly
2003 Cedar fire. Several hundred thousand people
evacuated their homes as wildfires flared across
the county, but the size of the exodus made
escape impossible for some.(Wally Skalij / Los
Angeles Times)October 22, 2007
39Without aerial support, firefighters are
overwhelmed by flames racing through homes in
Green Valley Lake on Monday in the San Bernardino
Mountains.(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles
Times)October 22, 2007
40A firefighter illuminated in orange.(Submitted
to Your Scene By Pool Man)
41An Airstream trailer is dwarfed last Sunday by
approaching flames in Carbon Canyon in Malibu.
Several structures were burned that day by the
fast-moving blaze, dubbed the Canyon
fire.(Stephen Osman / Los Angeles Times)October
21, 2007
42A firefighter from the California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protection is dwarfed by flames
along East Grade Road on Palomar Mountain early
Wednesday. The fire was still raging Saturday and
had burned 43,000 acres and destroyed nearly 80
homes.(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)October
24, 2007
43A firefighter watches a backfire burn on East
Grade Road on Palomar Mountain on Wednesday. The
area remained under threat nearly a week after
the Southern California firestorms began.(Wally
Skalij / Los Angeles Times)October 24, 2007
44Smoke drifts around downtown San
Diego.(Submitted to YourScene by gutinho)
45Sunset in Simi Valley on Sunday
evening.(Submitted to YourScene By Connie)
46Afternoon sun illuminates the sky through the
smoke. Santa Ana winds blew the smoke from the
fires out to sea. Captured by Jeff Hollister
from the backyard of his home in Laguna
Niguel.October 24, 2007
47A deer forages on Modjeska Canyon Road near the
Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary. The Santiago fire is
90 contained, and full containment is expected
Sunday, officials said.(Allen J. Schaben / Los
Angeles Times)October 28, 2007
48A 25-year-old Forest Service firefighter who fell
while working to create a containment line is
readied for transport to a hospital
Wednesday.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles
Times)October 24, 2007
49A message for firefighters from the residents of
Portola Hills.(Submitted to Your Scene By Tara)
50President Bush predicted a "better day ahead" as
he toured fire-ravaged San Diego on Thursday. "To
the extent people need the help of the federal
government, we will help," he said, his right arm
draped over the shoulder of Kendra Jeffcoat,
whose burned-out Rancho Bernardo home served as a
backdrop for the walking tour.(Jay L. Clendenin
/ Los Angeles Times)October 25, 2007
51Brian and Sue Geraci survey the remains of their
burned-out home in Orange County's Modjeska
Canyon on Tuesday. "Our house was supposed to be
fireproof. We watered and we watered and we
watered," Sue Geraci said.(Allen J. Schaben /
Los Angeles Times)October 23, 2007
52Tress Goodwin cries Thursday at memories lost and
found in the house she grew up in on Aguamiel
Road in the Rancho Bernardo area of San Diego.
She holds a cup that belonged to her late
grandmother.(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles
Times)October 23, 2007
53Rachel Whittemore, background, prays Thursday
with her mother, Winsome, during an ecumenical
service at Our Lady of Malibu Catholic Church.
Winsome Whittemore is a staff member of Malibu
Presbyterian Church, which was destroyed in the
Canyon fire.(Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles
Times)October 25, 2007
54A girl shields her eyes from the smoke and ashes
after her family evacuated horses Tuesday to the
Del Mar Fairgrounds north of San Diego.(Robert
Lachman / Los Angeles Times)October 22, 2007
55Teresa Lewis surveys the damage to her kitchen
Wednesday afternoon after her Canyon Country home
was gutted by fire and then looted. That prompted
her family to have a chain-link fence put up
around their property.(Michael Robinson Chavez /
Los Angeles Times)October 24, 2007
56Leo Calac passes an undamaged piece of Southwest
Indian pottery to a helper as he sifts through
the remains of his burned-down home Wednesday on
the Rincon Reservation in San Diego County. Calac
had lived in the house for 30 years.(Brian
Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)October 24, 2007
57A neighborhood in Lake Arrowhead is reduced to
ash by Monday evening. A week after the Southern
California blazes began, stubborn flames continue
to threaten the area in San Bernardino
County.(Don Kelsen / Los Angeles Times)October
22, 2007
58Several homes in this Rancho Bernardo
neighborhood of San Diego were reduced to rubble
Tuesday, while others escaped the fire
unscathed.(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles
Times)October 23, 2007
59Jay Riordan holds a charred fragment of a family
photo recovered Thursday from the ashes of his
home in the Rancho Bernardo area of San
Diego.(Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles
Times)
60Tim and Susan Deehan embrace amid the ruins of
their home overlooking Oak Canyon and Lake Poway
in San Diego County on Thursday.(Barbara Davidson
/ Los Angeles Times)
61A paddleboarder glides across the water Thursday
in Newport Beach as the sun sets in a
smoke-filled sky. The winds that fanned the
Southern California fires also pushed its smoke
far out to sea.(Lori Shepler / Los Angeles
Times)October 25, 2007