A television news reporter and her cameraman stand on a hilltop as flames burn trees behind them near Lockwood Valley road Wednesday , Sept. 27 , 2006, near Ventura, Calif. Fire crews guarded homes and ranches as a stubborn wildfire that has jumped containment lines crept within a half-mile of hundreds of dwellings. (
A firefighter runs down Lockwood Valley Road as flames burn through the brush after the fire jumped the road in Ventura, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006. Despite the renewed intensity, no homes had been lost to the blaze, which began on Labor Day and has burned more than 143,100 acres of wilderness 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
A helicopter fills up with water from a farm pond along Lockwood Valley Road as smoke from the Day Fire rises in the background in Ventura, Calif. on Tuesday Sept. 26, 2006. Firefighters worked to protect hundreds of rural homes in the path of the stubborn wildfire that has burned for more than three weeks in mountainous Southern California forest lands.
A tornado is caused by the windswept Day Fire, just moments after it jumped Lockwood Valley Road, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006, in Ventura, Calif. Firefighters worked to protect hundreds of rural homes in the path of the stubborn wildfire which had jumped 60-foot-wide bulldozer lines in Los Padres National Forest Monday night.
Firefighters watch as flames tear through thousands of acres of brush in Lockwood Valley in Ventura, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006. Despite the renewed intensity, no homes had been lost to the Day Fire, which began on Labor Day and has burned more than 143,000 acres of wilderness 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
Firefighters make their way down a road to fight a brush fire in Lockwood Valley, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006, in Ventura County, Calif. A flank of a 3-week-old forest fire made a dangerous push toward rural homes and authorities urged residents of several Southern California mountain communities to evacuate.
Fire envelops the side of a hill in Lockwood Valley, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006, near Frazier Park in Ventura County, Calif. A flank of a 3-week-old Day Fire made a dangerous push toward rural homes and authorities urged residents of several Southern California mountain communities to evacuate.
A strike team from Carlsbad, Calif., works to clear brush around a home Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006 north of Ojai, Calif. as the Day Fire continued to burn, driven by Santa Ana winds.
A helicopter loaded with fire retardant leaves the Rose Valley helipad to battle the Day Fire Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006 north of Ojai, Calif.
A column of smoke rises behind the Lake Piru ranger station as the Day Fire burns Monday, Sept. 18, 2006 in Piru, Calif.