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The news of the day is the fires raging throughout California. At Angel Island in San Francisco on Monday, a wildfire charred 380 acres, but fire officials expected it to be fully contained by Tuesday evening. Southern California fared much worse. Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds burned into neighborhoods near Los Angeles, forcing frantic evacuations on smoke- and traffic-choked highways, destroying homes and causing at least two deaths. (26 images)
Fire engulfs Angel Island behind Alcatraz Island in this view from San Francisco early Monday morning. Rugged terrain and difficulty transporting equipment across the San Francisco Bay complicated efforts to corral the 250-acre wildfire. Bryan Patrick / bpatrick@sacbee.com
A wind-driven fire burns out of control on Angel Island, on Monday in San Francisco Bay. The fire started Sunday night, and by midnight it had grown to 100 acres, Marin County fire officials said. San Francisco Chronicle / Fred Larson
Angel Island burns as a sailboat goes by in this view from in Sausalito on Monday. AP / Eric Risberg
Spectators view firefighting efforts on Angel Island on Monday in this view from Tiburon. AP / Ben Margot
Firefighters extinguish the remnants of a wildfire on Monday after it ravaged more than half of Angel Island State Park. San Francisco Chronicle / Frederic Larson
Two men evacuate a horse ahead of a fast-moving, wind-driven brush fire in Los Angeles on Monday. Intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California on Monday morning and whipped up a 3,000-acre wildfire, forcing the closure of a major freeway and burning mobile homes and industrial buildings. AP / Dan Steinberg
Traffic snakes up a road as residents flee their hillside homes ahead of a fast-moving wildfire in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles on Monday. AP / Dan Steinberg
Flames roar down hillsides early Monday north of Los Angeles after intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California. AP / Mike Meadows
A Los Angeles police officer tells a resident to evacuate as a fast-moving brush fire approaches the home in Los Angeles on Monday. AP / Dan Steinberg
Three women evacuate their home as a wind driven brush fire burns toward them in the hills of the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles on Monday. Residents were not allowed to drive into one of Porter Ranch's gated communities because officials wanted to keep roads clear for emergency vehicles. Instead they parked their cars, ran to their homes and carried out whatever they could carry in pillow cases, in their arms, sacks and suitcases. Some ran out clutching paintings.AP / Dan Steinberg
A strike team of fire engines head west on an empty 210 Freeway in Los Angeles on Monday. The California Highway patrol shut down the entire freeway due to smoke from the wildfires. AP / Dan Steinberg
The Oat Mountain fire burns above Porter Ranch in Los Angeles on Monday. Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds burned into neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, forcing frantic evacuations on smoke- and traffic-choked highways, destroying homes and causing at least two deaths. Los Angeles Times / Mel Melcon
A firefighter works on a hot spot near Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles on Monday. "This is what we feared the most," Los Angeles County fire Capt. Mark Savage said. "The winds that were expected -- they have arrived." AP / Hector Mata
A Los Angeles County firefighter works to douse flames on a two-story house near Porter Ranch in Los Angeles on Monday. More than 1,000 firefighters and nine water-dropping aircraft battled the 4,700-acre Marek Fire at the northeast end of the San Fernando Valley, and the 5,000-acre Sesnon Fire at the west end. AP / Mike Meadows
Firefighters attempt to protect a home from burning, right, not seen in photo, while another firefighter, rear right, hoses down the remains of a home near Porter Ranch in Los Angeles on Monday. Authorities confirmed more than three-dozen mobile homes burned at the Marek Fire, and 19 structures -- some of them homes -- were either damaged or destroyed by the Sesnon Fire. Commercial sites burned in both fires. AP/ Mike Meadows
Vehicles burn Monday morning north of Los Angeles after intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California and whipped up a 3,700-acre wildfire. AP / Mike Meadows
Firefighters extinguish a burning storage yard near Los Angeles on Monday. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. AP / Dan Steinberg
A firefighter tries to extinguish burning mobile home that ignited from a wind driven brush fire in Los Angeles on Monday. AP / Dan Steinberg
A firefighter battles flames at a mobile home park early Monday north of Los Angeles. More than 1,000 firefighters and nine water-dropping aircraft battled the 4,700-acre Marek Fire at the northeast end of the San Fernando Valley, and the 5,000-acre Sesnon Fire at the west end. AP / Mike Meadows
A helicopter drops water on burning mobile homes and cars in Los Angeles on Monday. AP / Dan Steinberg
An airplane drops water on a wildfire that burned more than 3,700 acres in Los Angeles on Monday. The fire burned mobile homes and industrial buildings and forced the evacuation of eight patients from a hospital. AP / Dan Steinberg
Damage caused by a wildfire in the Sky Terrace Mobile Lodge and Storage business in Los Angeles. AP / Ric Francis
A plane drops retardant on a wildfire in Camp Pendleton on Monday. A wildfire that began on an explosives training range at Camp Pendleton forced the evacuation of a military housing area and more than 1,100 homes near the Marine base, officials said. The San Diego Union-Tribune / Crissy Pascual
Firefighters work to put out a wildfire that threatened homes along a ridge in Newport Beach on Monday. The Orange County Register / Eugene Garcia
With fire trucks stationed in background, Costa Mesa firefighters finish up after extinguishing a blaze on Bonita Canyon in Newport Beach on Monday afternoon. The Orange County Register / H. Lorren Au Jr.
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