California wildfires 30 photos. ... The 2003 Cedar Fire scorched more than 437 square miles, nearly 3,000 buildings - including more than 2,000 homes - and killed 15 people before being contained.

California Wildfires Wildfires continue to burn across southern California, consuming hundreds of homes, charring hundreds of thousands of acres and sending thousands fleeing from their homes.

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif., Nov. 2 -- -- With the Southern California wildfires nearly contained, residents returned to the San Bernardino Mountains on Sunday to see if their homes survived.

Hot Santa Ana winds fan wildfires that have now burned more than 20,000 acres in Southern California, including thousands of acres of national forest. The largest of the blazes shut down two ...

In October 2003, Southern California was ravaged by wildfires fueled by Santa Ana winds. From Oct. 21 to Nov. 4, there were 14 major fires burning from as far north as Santa Barbara County to as ...

LOS ANGELES – Firefighters waged a desperate war on flames racing toward the Los Angeles city limits yesterday as Gov. Gray Davis declared the Southern California wildfires the most costly di… ...

Californians Flee as Wildfires Advance. ... By Rene Sanchez. October 28, 2003 at 12:00 a.m. EST. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27 ... An army of firefighters across Southern California struggled Monday to ...

They were among 14 monster wildfires that erupted throughout Southern California that October in what Cal Fire described then as the state’s worst wildland fire disaster.

The agencies said they are better equipped now, with alert systems, more than 100 cameras to monitor for potential wildfires and helicopters to fight fires (now 24/7, even through the night ...

This story originally ran on Dec. 31, 2003 The fires began as a wisp of smoke near Mount Baldy and, within a week, had exploded into the costliest conflagration in California history. More than ...

A single spark, started as a Hail Mary by a lost hunter in California's Cleveland National Forest on Oct. 25, 2003, mutated into one of the state's largest wildfires -- a fire that spread across ...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- A prosecutor said Monday a man who was angry about being thrown out of a house where his family was staying was guilty of murdering five people who had heart attacks ...