After scampering from a flaming hillside, a rabbit stops to survey its surroundings as a firefighter stands by to protect structures and oak trees in the East Canyon of the Santa Clarita Woodlands Park in Santa Clarita, Calif., Oct. 30, 2003.
Three teacups remain largely intact outside a destroyed home Oct. 30, 2003 in Crest, Calif. Numerous homes were destroyed by the Cedar Fire which continues to burn just outside San Diego.
Gloria Beserra of Cedar Glen, Calif., sits with her grandson Eddie Paiz, 4, under a stairwell where they set up their cots in a hangar at the American Red Cross shelter for the evacuated residents of the Old Fire at San Bernardino International Airport in San Bernardino, Calif., Oct. 30, 2003. More than 900 evacuated residents were staying at the location.
Bryce Parsons, 19, in red, Curtis Chapman, 17, top, Louis Heitz, 20 and David Lasky,16, bottom right, all of Running Springs, Calif., sit on a couch they got from the Salvation Army, playing cards and passing time on the flightline at San Bernardino International Airport, after being evacuated due to the Old Fire Oct. 30, 2003.
Claire Shalinsky, 12, places items salvaged from her family's burned home in the Scripps Ranch area of San Diego, Calif., Oct. 30, 2003. The home was among more than 1,400 lost in the 275,000-acre Cedar fire.
Signs thanking firefighters for all their hard work in battling the Old Fire hang on the fence of Wildwood Park in San Bernardino Calif., Oct. 30, 2003.
Dust clouds blow across the singed earth and mix with smoky skies as strong winds accompanied a major change in the weather at the Cedar fire in Cayumaca, Calif. Oct. 30, 2003.
Chimneys are all that stand in Scripps Ranch neighborhood in San Diego, Calif. Oct. 30, 2003. The homes were among more than 1,500 lost in the 275,000-acre Cedar fire.
Jason Green of the Los Angeles County Fire Department puts out some remaining hot spots southwest of Santa Clarita, Calif., Oct. 30, 2003, at the Simi Fire.
A Los Angeles city firefighter wets down an area that burned to a bulldozed firebreak as a crew of women from the California Department of Corrections in Malibu walk up the firebreak in Stevenson Ranch, Calif., Oct. 30, 2003.
A charred pumpkin is shown at the front door of a home that was destroyed by fire in Cedar Glen, Calif., Oct. 30, 2003.
Firefighters from the northern California city of Fremont, Paul Andrews, left, Cpt., Biff Beltz, center, and Frank Carlucci, stand in front of a burned-out truck where dozens of houses burned to the ground after the Old Fire roared through the Cedar Glen section of Lake Arrowhead, Calif.
Only the chimney remains standing after fire consumed dozens of homes on Pine Drive in the Cedar Glen section of Lake Arrowhead, Calif. The Old Fire roared through the area overnight, destroying more than 300 homes, Oct. 30, 2003.
A burned vehicle sits outside the fire ravaged hillside town of Crest, Calif., Oct. 30, 2003. Numerous homes were destroyed by the Cedar Fire which continued to burn just outside San Diego.
A fire burns next to a destroyed house in Cedar Glen, Calif., Oct. 30, 2003. Several homes in the area were destroyed by fire.
Phyllis Banducci from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection closes her eyes after seeing burned houses at Hooks Creek Road, Oct. 30, 2003, in Cedar Glen, Calif.
A Pacific Bell telephone repair crew works on a line before a fire-blackened hillside in Pico Canyon in Stevenson Ranch Oct. 30, 2003. Residents of the community returned to find their houses untouched by remnants of the Simi Valley fire that burned to within 10 feet of some homes.
Pechanga firefighters try to close a fire at Hooks Creek Road Oct. 30, 2003, in Cedar Glen, Calif. Wildfires, burning in a broken arc across Southern California, from Ventura County east to San Bernardino Mountains and south to eastern San Diego County have destroyed more than 2,605 houses.
Nate Ingram, left, takes a picture as Clayton Connolly, center, and Dan Stone survey the fire that destroyed the house of their friends Frank and Haley Orrecchio, in the Cedar Glen community of Lake Arrowhead, Calif., Oct. 30, 2003.
A ceramic thumbs-up figurine sits atop the rubble of a destroyed home after it was salvaged Oct. 30, 2003 in Crest, Calif.