Fire engulfs a home as it sweeps up a canyon in San Diego, Calif., Oct. 26, 2003. Wildfires are burning out of control in numerous areas around the county.
A roaring fire pours from a home with no possibility of help from the fire department during a raging wildfire that was sweeping through San Diego County Oct. 26, 2003.
Fire sweeps through a junkyard in a rural area of San Diego County Oct. 26, 2003.
In this satellite image, plumes of smoke caused by wildfires are seen moving off the coast through southern California, Oct. 26, 2003. Fires burning are, at left, Simi Valley and Moorpark; center, the combined Grand Prix and Old Fire, north of San Bernadino and Rancho Cucamonga/Ontario; bottom right, the Scripps Ranch fire in the San Diego area.
Fire engulfs a row of homes as one of numerous wild fires sweeps through a housing development in San Diego county, California, Oct. 26, 2003. Wild fires are burning out of control in numerous areas around the county.
A palm tree catches fire during a wildfire Oct. 26, 2003, in Santa Paula, Calif. The fire ran adjacent to the Santa Clarita River, causing an evacuation at the Santa Paula airport and nearby burning businesses.
One of many homes burn to the ground during the Old Fire, Oct. 26, 2003, in Devore, Calif.
A firefighter inmate takes cover from flames from the Old Fire, Oct. 26, 2003, while trying to protect homes in Devore, Calif.
A California Department of Forestry truck passes by flames from the Old Fire, Oct. 26, 2003, while protecting homes in San Bernardino, Calif.
A firefighter kneels down while spraying water on a house fire near Crestline, Calif., Oct. 26, 2003, on the second day of the Old Fire. The fire burned at least 200 homes on Saturday and had grown to 12,000 acres Sunday morning.
Sandy Glenn walks by an American flag that is still standing in front of a friend's fire-ravaged home on La Hacienda Drive in San Bernardino, Calif., Oct. 26, 2003, after the Old Fire swept through the area.
A helicopter drops water on flames from the Old Fire while trying to protect homes in Devore, Calif., Oct. 26, 2003.
Residents look on as a fire burns Oct. 26, 2003, in Malibu, Calif.
After wetting down the roof of his home of 20 years under smoke-filled skies, Bob McCary stares at billows of smoke from fire in Hopper Canyon in Fillmore, Calif., Oct. 26, 2003. The fire known as the Piru fire, that had been approaching containment, flared up on Sunday.
Martin Orozco, his 4-year-old son Adrian, and Orizco's wife Carmen, holding their niece Alajandra, watch flames above Hopper Canyon in Fillmore, Calif. after sunset Oct. 26, 2003.
Capt. Gary Sutter of the Los Angeles County Fire Department sprays water on one of about 50 houses destroyed in Claremont, Calif., by the Grand Prix fire early Oct. 26, 2003.
A brush fire burned trees in Burbank, Calif.
Randy Hudgens evacuates his Arabian mix horse named Sassy along 40th Street as a wildfrie burns nearby in San Bernardino, Calif., Oct. 25, 2003.
Pam Byrmes-O'Camb, center, is aided by firefighters as she rescues her cats from her home along Park Lane in San Bernardino, Calif., Oct. 25, 2003.
A California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection airplane dropped fire retardant on burning mountainsides on north Camp Pendleton, Calif.