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Southern California Wildfires

  • A firefighter pauses as a house next to theone he is protecting burns on Park Avenue during the Old Fire in San Bernardino, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Joe Botello runs away from smoke and flames approaching his house on 54th Street in SanBernardino, Calif. Botello returned days later to find that his house was destroyed in the Old Fire. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Wyatt Spellman, 5, washes soot and dirt from his face from a water pipe amid the rubble of his homeon Deercrest Drive in Devore, Calif. The Old Fire burned more than 200 homes. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • An air tanker drops fire retardant on flames behinda home in Oak Hills, Calif., during the Hill Fire. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • A firefighter moves his hose line away from a burning house along Brentwood Lane while battling the Grass Valley Fire in Lake Arrowhead, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • First place photograph in the World Press Photo Foundation's nature category, 2004. A California Department of Forestry helicopter drops water on a fire burning in the Santa Ana River bed in Mira Loma, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • California Highway Patrol Officer C.A. Dosstells Terria Robertson that she can't go back to her home on Sycamore Drive because the Grand Prix Fire is burning in Lytle Creek, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Firefighters carry a hose line to extinguish spot fires after fire retardant was dropped in a canyonnear homes on Parvin Lane in Colton, Calif. No homes were damaged in the 20-acre brush fire. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Tami Goldstein, left, starts to cry after going throughwhat is left of her home on Ralston Avenue after the Old Fire moved through the Del Rosa area of SanBernardino, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Colton firefighter John Vail attacks a wood pile and brush burning behind a home along East Sunset Drive in Redlands, Calif., during the Helen Fire. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Firefighters and the family of U.S. Forest Service firefighter Jason McKay visit the site near Twin Pines, Calif., where McKay died along with four other members of his crewwhile fighting the Esperanza Fire. A fire storm overtook the house they were protecting and their vehicles. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • San Bernardino, Calif., city firefighter Paul Drasil moves quickly out of the way from flames after lighting back fires along Highway 18 during the Old Fire. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Lake Matthews station Battalion Chief Greg Everhart, left, and California Highway Patrol officer Tony Coronado examine a burnt vehicle on a dirt road near Gavilan Road in Riverside, Calif. According to Cal Fire, a motorist was driving the vehicle whenit caught fire and then burned 45 acres of brush. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Firefighters from the Puerta La Cruz fire crew of San Diego, Calif., head back to their fire truck after putting out spot fires in a grass field during mop up of the Ranch Fire in Beaumont, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • California Department Forestry firefighter Lou Sciocchehi stands along a dirt road near Santa's Village making sure no spot fires occur after the San Bernardino Old Fire jumped Highway 18 in Skyforest. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Maria Loutzenhiser comforts Cecilia McLean as she visits the area where her son Jess McLean died while battlingthe Esperanza Fire. U.S. Forest Service firefighters Cpt. Mark Loutzenhiser, Daniel Najera-Ayala, Jason McKay, Pablo Cereda and Jess McLean from Engine 57 died when a fire storm overtook the house they were protecting and their vehicles near Twin Pines, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • San Bernardino County Sheriff Deputy Steve Cline watches the progress of the Grand Prix fire in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Bruce Milne, left, comforts his wife, Melanie, after his metal shop was destroyed by the Sawtooth Fire. Their home on Lariat Trail was spared by the fire storm that hit Pioneertown in Yucca Valley, Calif. The firedestroyed more than 50 homes and buildings. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • San Bernardino County Sheriff John Laurent watchesas 100-foot pine trees burn in the Grass Valley Firealong Highway 330 near Running Springs, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • An off-duty firefigther takes out personal belongings from a house along Big Horn Mountain Way duringthe Freeway Complex Fire in Yorba Linda Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Tess Najarian sits in the rubble of her burned home on Holcomb Creek Drive while visiting the site for the first time since the Slide Fire destroyed it. Residents from Green Valley Lake, Calif., were allowed to see their neighborhood after mandatory evacuation restrictionswere lifted. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Melanie Milne digs a hole to bury several dead rabbits that she found near her house after the Sawtooth Complex Fire destroyed the landscape and several homes in Pioneertown in Yucca Valley, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Firefighters extinguish a small spot fire after fire retardant was dropped along Highway 243 near Poppet Flat Road near Twin Pines, Calif. More than 200 acres were burned. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • San Manuel firefighter Laurie Green movesin to extinguish a house engulfed in flamesin San Bernardino, Calif. Hundreds of homes were destroyed in the Old Fire. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • A fire crew from Tuscon, Ariz., takes a break from lighting back fires and clearing brush along Adeline Way in Morongo Valley, Calif. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
  • Firefighters spray water on a house trying to protect it while several other homes burn along Brentwood Lane in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., during the Old Fire. (The Press-Enterprise/ Mark Zaleski)
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