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California wildfires at a glance
( 2003-10-28 15:51) (AP)
An unidentified man watches a wildfire burn on
a neighboring hill in Lakeside, Calif. Monday night, Oct. 27, 2003.
California's deadliest outbreak of fires in more than a decade has killed
at least 15 people, destroyed at least 1,134 homes and consumed more than
483,000 acres stretching from the Mexican border to the suburbs northeast
of Los Angeles. [AP] |
Camp Pendleton Fire Department crews battle
flames to save a home on at the front of the Paradise Fire in Valley
Center, Calif., Monday, Oct. 27, 2003. [AP] |
Capt. Mike Clemens, of the
U.S. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, watches
flames approaching a residence in Fillmore, Calif., Monday, Oct. 27, 2003.
Fire management techniques and changing winds assisted fire personnel in
redirecting the blaze away from structures. [AP] |
Tim Mills, left, and Beverly Gebur watch as a
fire above the Wal-Mart parking lot flares up with the evening wind in
Lakeside, California, U.S., Monday, October 27, 2003. The
wildfires,deadliest in ten years, killed at least 15 people, destroyed at
least 1,134 homes and consumed more than half a million acres spreading to
the Mexican border. [AP] |
A firefighter sets a controled fire to a
hillside to burn off brush in an attempt to keep a wildfire from spreading
in Lakeside, Calif. Monday night, Oct 27, 2003. [AP] |
A U.S. Forest Service DC-4 drops fire
retardent behind as they try to protect the luxery homes in the
foreground, Monday, Oct. 27, 2003, in Los Angeles County.
[AP] |
Los Angeles firefighters Louis Navarro Jr.,
left, and Brandon Frere, watch a fire, Monday, Oct. 27, 2003, in Sami
Valley, Calif. [AP] |
Smoke from various wildfires around Los
Angeles and Southern California, captured by NASA 's Aqua satellite,
drifts over the Pacific Ocean on Monday, Oct. 27, 2003. The fires are
marked with a red outline.
[AP] |
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