More residents of Southern California were urged to leave their homes Sunday despite calming winds that allowed a major aerial attack on wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and blanketed the region in smoke.
Fires burned in Los Angeles County, to the east in Riverside and Orange counties, and to the northwest in Santa Barbara County. More than 800 houses, mobile homes and apartments were destroyed by fires that have burned areas more than 34 square miles since breaking out Thursday. No deaths have been reported, but police brought in trained dogs Sunday morning to search the rubble of a mobile home park where nearly 500 homes were destroyed. They didn't find any bodies after searching about a third of the homes. -- associated press (23 images)
Fires burned in Los Angeles County, to the east in Riverside and Orange counties, and to the northwest in Santa Barbara County. More than 800 houses, mobile homes and apartments were destroyed by fires that have burned areas more than 34 square miles since breaking out Thursday. No deaths have been reported, but police brought in trained dogs Sunday morning to search the rubble of a mobile home park where nearly 500 homes were destroyed. They didn't find any bodies after searching about a third of the homes. -- associated press (23 images)
Firefighters battle a blaze on Sunday, Nov. 16 in Diamond Bar. Fierce Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires on Saturday weakened Sunday morning, allowing firefighters to set backfires to prevent flames from advancing to hillside neighborhoods. Getty Images / Sandy Huffaker
Aerial views from the aftermath of the Freeway Complex fire on Sunday, Nov. 16 in Yorba Linda. The blaze had scorched more than 16 square miles in Orange and Riverside counties after erupting Saturday and shooting through subdivisions entwined with wilderness parklands. Multimillion-dollar homes were threatened in Diamond Bar in Los Angeles County as the out-of-control fire pushed northward. Orange County Register / Michael Goulding
An overview taken on Sunday of the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Symlar that was destroyed by wildfire. Firefighters on Sunday picked through the devastation wrought by wildfires in two counties, while struggling to contain another monstrous fire that erupted suddenly in Orange County Saturday. The New York Times / Monica Almeida
A search and rescue worker and her dog walk through the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles on Sunday. The park was home to many elderly residents, and though no fatalities were reported and no one was reported missing,investigators were searching the site using trained dogs. AP / Matt Sayles
Residents wait outside the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday. Authorities said Sunday that 484 of the Oakridge Mobile Home Park's 608 units were lost. The fire also destroyed nine single-family homes and 11 commercial buildings. AP / Matt Sayles
Los Angeles City Fire Department deputy chief Emile Mack, right, and Los Angeles Fire Department captain Bill Wick, left, present Oakridge Mobile Home Park manager Ginny Harmon with an American flag that was recovered in the fire in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles on Sunday. AP / Matt Sayles
Firefighters fight the blaze on one of the last remaining structures in the Oakridge Mobile Home Park on Saturday. Fire officials estimated that at the peak of the Sylmar fire, 10,000 people were ordered to evacuate. However, many evacuation orders were lifted Saturday night, Fire Department spokesman Ron Haralson said. AFP / Getty Images / Robyn Beck
Alex Sorder watches as his neighbors home is consumed by fire in Yorba Linda, on Saturday. The so-called Freeway Complex Fire forced more than 26,000 residents to evacuate and destroyed at least 179 homes, most of them in Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills. Orange County Register / Mindy Schauer
A firefighter drags a hose uphill as his crew prepares to put out a wildfire destroying burning homes in Yorba Linda on Saturday. Firefighters spent day and night on Sunday beating back the fire's northern march along the 57 Freeway and stubborn hold on Tonner Canyon north of Brea. AP / Mark Avery
Homes burn during a wildfire in Yorba Linda, on Saturday. On Saturday, the fire burned 119 homes in the communities of Corona, Yorba Linda and Anaheim. In addition, 50 units of an apartment complex burned, Orange County fire spokeswoman Angela Garbiso said. AP / Chris Carlson
Homes burn during a wildfire in Yorba Linda on Saturday. AP / Chris Carlson
A California Department of Forestry air tanker flies over dozens of homes destroyed by a wildfire which swept through Montecito, near Santa Barbara on Friday. By Sunday, a 3-square-mile fire that began in the upscale Santa Barbara County community was 75 percent contained by Sunday morning, but only after injuring at least 25 people. AP / Kevork Djansezian
The Mount Calvary Benedictine monastery is seen in the aftermath of a wildfire in Montecito, on Friday. AP / Kevork Djansezian
An air tanker drops retardant onto a hillside to prevent a wildfire from advancing in Diamond Bar on Sunday. AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez
A helicopter makes a water drop above homes in Yorba Linda on Saturday, Nov. 15, where fire destroyed several homes. Orange County Register / Mindy Schauer
Los Angeles firefighters remove belongings from a home they are unable to save at the Oak Ridge Mobile Home Park in the northern San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles on Saturday. AP / Reed Saxon
Barbara Pointer and her daughter Katie embrace Friday morning, as firefighters extinguish the last flames from their home in the background. The house was destroyed by a wildfire that began Thursday and burned about 100 homes and other structures in Montecito. AP / Reed Saxon
Antoinette Cimmino, right, who just learned her home was saved, embraces Ruth Kamke, who lost her home at the Oak Ridge Mobile Home Park, at an evacuation center set up at Sylmar High School, in Los Angeles on Saturday. AP / Reed Saxon
Dark brown smoke casts a pall over the ruins of the Oak Ridge Mobile Home Park in the northern San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles on Saturday. AP / Reed Saxon
A firefighter sprays water on a burning house in Montecito on Friday. The wind-whipped wildfire destroyed some 80 homes, injuring at least four people and forcing thousands to evacuate the posh community near Santa Barbara. AP / Afton Almaraz
A firefighter battles a fire at a mansion in Montecito on Friday. AP / Mark J. Terrill
Police enforce a mandatory evacuation in a neighborhood as a wind driven Santa Ana fire threatens homes, in Yorba Linda on Saturday. AP / Richard Vogel
Adam Snyder sits on the roof of his Misson Hills Lane home using a garden hose to protect it from a wildfire burning homes in Yorba Linda on Saturday. AP / Mark Avery
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