A wildfire burns across a hillside in the San Timoteo Canyon, near Redlands, Calif., Aug. 19, 2003. The wildfire picked up in intensity and blackened some 1,400 acres as some residents voluntarily evacuated their homes.
Fire trucks move in to battle flames near San Timoteo Canyon Road in Redlands, Calif., Aug. 19, 2003.
Flames from a wildfire move within feet of a home, Aug. 19, 2003, near San Timoted Canyon Road in Redlands, Calif.
Horses run scared as a wildfire burns near their corral near Redlands, Calif., Aug. 19, 2003.
Capt. Keith Fisher of the Riverside County Department of Forestry stands watching over a back burn on a hillside during a wildfire in the San Timoteo Canyon near Redlands, Calif., Aug. 19, 2003.
A firefighter prepares to protect a home from fire in Redlands, Calif., Aug 19, 2003.
Maria Caliva, a Bureau of Land Management firefighter from Salem, Ore., watches the weather while wetting hot spots on the Black Mountain Fire near Missoula, Mont., Aug. 19, 2003.
Firefighters from Salem, Ore., work a fireline on Blue Mountain near a Missoula, Mont., subdivision, Aug. 19, 2003.
A firefighting helicopter hauling a 1,100-gallon bucket hovers above Going-to-the-Sun Road, Aug. 17, 2003, as it collects water from McDonald Creek below McDonald Falls in Glacier National Park, Mont. All 50 miles of the road were reopened after parts were shut down when the Robert fire jumped a fire line.
Charred cars sit along the shore of Yellowstone Lake after they were destroyed by the 14,400-acre East fire in Yellowstone National Park, Mont., Aug. 17, 2003.
The charred skeleton of a vehicle and a pile of rubble are all that is left of a home burned by the Black Mountain Fire near Missoula, Mont., Aug. 17, 2003.
With a thick haze of smoke from the Robert Fire obscuring the view, Paul Siebrasse and his daughter Brynn, 3, of Plymouth, Minn., wade in Lake McDonald near Apgar Village in Glacier National Park, Mont., Aug. 15, 2003.
Tommy Zane hoses down a neighbor's roof as a fast-moving brush fire threatens homes northeast of Provo, Utah, Aug. 15, 2003.
Angus Fox turns while watching a fire come within yards of his house in Provo, Utah, Aug. 15, 2003. Fox was evacuated from his home along with about 15 other homeowners when the fire broke out on Squaw Peak. No structures were destroyed.
Magen Starr reads a book as a Sikorsky S64 helicopter fills its 2,000-gallon water tank on Lindbergh Lake near Seeley Lake Mont., Aug. 14, 2003. The Sikorsky was dropping water on the Crazy Horse Fire just a mile from Starr's vacation cabin.
Pamela Meidinger sprays water on dry grass near her house in Klamath Falls, Ore., Aug. 13, 2003, as a wildfire burns behind her. The fire threatened several homes in the area.
Trees explode into flames as the Crazy Horse fire burns on the Flathead National Forest near Condon., Mont., Aug. 13, 2003.