A firefighter uses a drip torch to set a backfire at the deadly Esperanza Fire before dawn in the San Jacinto Mountains on Oct. 27, 2006, near Banning, Calif., west of Palm Springs. Five U.S. Forest Service firefighters were killed when a wall of flame swept over them as they tried to protect a home on Oct. 26. The Santa Ana Wind-driven wildfire grew to more than 24,000 acres.
(Photo: GETTY IMAGES/David McNew)
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