Wildfires Rage in California

A DC-10 jumbo jet tanker carrying 12,000-gallon loads drops swaths of fire retardant on top of the crest of Hauser Peak to protect microwave towers in Palmdale, Calif., on Friday, July 30, 2010. Hundreds of firefighters are concentrating on protecting the densely-populated Palmdale area a few miles away and a cluster of power transmission lines that provide electricity to much of Southern California.

A spotter airplane flies past as California Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority fire crews use bulldozers to clear a safety path at Hauser Peak to protect microwave towers, in Palmadale, Calif., on Friday, July 30, 2010.

A tanker drops fire retardant on the crest of the Hauser Peak in Palmdale, Calif., Friday, July 30, 2010.

A DC-10 jumbo jet tanker drops fire retardant on top of the crest of Hauser Peak to protect microwave towers in Palmadale, Calif., on Friday, July 30, 2010.

A DC-10 jumbo jet tanker carrying 12,000-gallon loads drops swaths of fire retardant on top of the crest of Hauser Peak to protect microwave towers in Palmdale, Calif., on Friday, July 30, 2010.

With houses visible in the background, flames from the Crown Fire races across the desert near Lake Elizabeth Road in Palmdale, Calif., Friday, July 30, 2010.

A DC-10 air tanker makes a retardant drop along a ridgeline in Palmdale, Calif., Friday, July 30, 2010. By Friday night the Crown Fire had burned more than 13,000 acres.

Stephen Crabtree pulls his absent neighbor's horse to safety, ahead of an incoming fire in Acton, Calif., on Friday, July 30, 2010.

A Boeing Evergreen B-747 Supertanker drops fire retardant in Palmdale, Calif. on Friday, July 30, 2010.

Garden Grove, Calif., firefighters sleep in front of their fire truck during a break from battling the Crown fire at Pelona Vista Park Friday, July 30, 2010, in Palmdale, Calif.

A U.S. Forest Service firefighter sets an intentional backfire to keep flames away from homes in Leona Valley, just west of Palmdale, Calif., and along Lake Elizabeth Road, July 30, 2010. Evacuations were prompted as a brush fire swept through rural Los Angeles County Thursday. As of early Friday the blaze had burned more than 12.5 square miles and was only 5% contained.

A fire captain looks for help to arrive in the Leona Valley area of Palmdale, Calif., as flames from a flare-up of the Crown Fire makes a run up a hillside on Friday, July 30, 2010.

Firefighters prepare to attack flames as a fast-moving wildfire nears Palmdale, Calif. on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

Fire rages behind the Lazy T Ranch on Elizabeth Lake Road west of Palmdale, Calif., on Thursday.

A firefighter looks on as a fast-moving wildfire approaches Elizabeth Lake Road in the Leona Valley near Palmdale, Calif., on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

Firefighters prepare to attack flames near Palmdale, Calif. on Thursday.

Firefighters and sheriff deputies retreat quickly as flames from a fast-moving wildfire approach Elizabeth Lake Road near Palmdale, Calif. on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

A U.S. Forest Service chief races down Lake Elizabeth Rd west of Palmdale, as a fast-moving fire tears through brush and grass. The brush fire swept over more than 7 square miles, prompted evacuations and burned structures in rural Los Angeles County Thursday.

A firefighter dons his gear as a fast-moving wildfire burns near Palmdale, Calif. on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

An unidentified woman watches as flames approach her home near Palmdale, Calif. on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

Residents are ordered to evacuate their homes in the path of the fire on Thursday, July 29, 2010 in Leona Valley, Calif. About 2,000 homes in the community of Leona Valley and parts of Palmdale areas were under evacuation Friday, according to Los Angeles County Fire.

A house catches fire in Leona Valley, Calif., on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

A firefighter watches as flames roar down a mountainside toward a home (bottom left) on Lake Elizabeth road in Leona Valley Thursday. The home was saved.

Flames approach a home near Palmdale, Calif., on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

Engine companies line up along Lake Elizabeth Road at dusk on Thursday, July 29, 2010, to combat a fast-moving wildfire, one of two major fires to break out in the same area.

An unidentified woman drives quickly from her home as flames approach near Palmdale, Calif., on Thursday, July 29, 2010.

Orange flames explode through dry grasses, along Lake Elizabeth Road on Thursday, July 29, 2010 in Leona Valley, Calif. On Friday the Los Angeles County Fire Department said there was zero containment.

On Wednesday, July 29, 2010, a fire helicopter drops water on the fire at Old West Ranch, about 10 miles southeast of the Mojave Desert town of Tehachapi, Calif. By Friday the 2 1/2-square-mile blaze was 46 percent contained after burning about 30 homes and other structures.

The glow from a wildfire can be seen through the entrance to the small community known as Old West Ranch on Tuesday. The area is about 70 miles north of Los Angeles.

A structure near Blackburn Canyon Road and Gary Road in the foothills above Tehachapi, Calif., burns on Tuesday, July 21, 2010 after two wildfires erupted and spread quickly.

Vehicles and other structures burned by a wildfire are seen at the Old West Ranch on Wednesday, July 28, 2010.

A mule deer and her fawn make their way through a burnt-out canyon at the Old West Ranch on Wednesday, July 28, 2010.

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