Thursday, 10 July 2008
burned more than 100 square miles in the Los Padres National Forest,
The charred remains of a motorcycle and other belongings are seen at a home destroyed by flames of the Butte Lightning Complex fire near Concow, Calif., Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Authorities ordered residents of 3,800 homes in Butte County to evacuate after the wind-stoked fire destroyed 40 homes and 10 structures Tuesday in the nearby rural community of Concow.
The charred remains of a child's bicycle is seen at a home destroyed by the Butte Lighting Complex fire near Concow, Calif., Wednesday, July 9, 2008.
Fire Capt. Sam Cousins overlooks the fire burning in southern Southern Barbara from his post along West Camino Cielo, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Homes in southern Santa Barbara County are still threatened by another fire in the Los Padres National Forest above the city of Goleta.
Firefighters take lunch break while building containment lines as a wildfire burns in Big Sur, Calif., on Thursday, July 3, 2008. The stubborn blaze, which has burned more than 100 square miles in the Los Padres National Forest, was just one of hundreds raging around the state.
With haze from burning wildfires in the background, California condor #94 take off near deserted Hwy 1 on Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Big Sur, Calif. Endangered condors sought to avoid the thick smoke from wildfires by hunkering in cliffs along the Pacific Ocean. Scientists were mourning the loss of a two-month-old chick that they say died when the fast-moving fire swept through the gorge where it was nesting in a 1,000-year-old redwood.
A fire burns around a sign on a dirt road during a wildfire in Big Sur, Calif., Thursday, July 3, 2008. A ferocious wildfire ravaged the hillsides above this scenic coastal community Thursday, leaving the popular tourist region mostly deserted ahead of the holiday weekend.
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