Wildfires force frantic evacuations near LA
2008-10-14 07:20:45 GMT2008-10-14 15:20:45 (Beijing Time) China Daily
People flee in their cars in the early morning from heavy winds during the second day of a wildfire in Sylmar, California October 13, 2008. Deadly wind-driven brush fires roared out of the foothills and canyons on the northern fringe of Los Angeles on Monday, destroying dozens of homes and threatening hundreds more. [Agencies]
Firefighters try to put out the fire in a storage yard during the second day of the Marek wildfire in Sylmar, California October 13, 2008. Deadly wind-driven brush fires roared out of the foothills and canyons on the northern fringe of Los Angeles on Monday, destroying dozens of homes and threatening hundreds more dwellings. [Agencies]
A car burns at a mobile home park during the second day of a wildfire in Sylmar, California October 13, 2008. Deadly wind-driven brush fires roared out of the foothills and canyons on the northern fringe of Los Angeles on Monday, destroying dozens of homes and threatening hundreds more. [Agencies]
A cloud of smoke is blown over the freeway near Porter Ranch in Los Angeles on Monday Oct. 13,2008. Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds threatened neighborhoods on the edges of the San Fernando Valley on Monday, killing one person, destroying several dozen mobile homes and forcing frantic evacuations. [Agencies]
Traffic snakes up a road as residents flee their hillside homes during a fast moving, wind driven brush fire in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. Intense Santa Ana winds swept into Southern California Monday morning and whipped up a 3,000-acre wildfire, forcing the closure of a major freeway during rush hour and burning mobile homes and industrial buildings. [Agencies]
People flee in their cars in the early morning from heavy winds during the second day of a wildfire in Sylmar, California October 13, 2008. Deadly wind-driven brush fires roared out of the foothills and canyons on the northern fringe of Los Angeles on Monday, destroying dozens of homes and threatening hundreds more.
