California wildfires 30 photos. ... just as they were in 2003. The 2003 Cedar Fire scorched more than 437 square miles, nearly 3,000 buildings - including more than 2,000 homes ...

The Old Fire raged through the San Bernardino Mountains 10 years ago, in October of 2003, carving out a dubious place in history as the most devastating fire ever to strike the area. As huge as ...

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 ...

California Wildfires Wildfires continue to burn across southern California, consuming hundreds of homes, ... October 27, 2003 12:00 AM ET. Heard on Talk of the Nation.

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 ...

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. In the ...

Historian Stephen Pyne sees no coincidence in the fact that on Oct. 8, 1542 — 475 years to the day before the wildfires began ravaging Northern California — the Spanish explorer Juan ...

RELATED: Most destructive California wildfires in history While the cause of some remains unknown, some, such as 2003's Cedar Fire, were determined to be started by human-related causes, while ...

In Harbison Canyon, there is no escaping the 2003 Cedar fire. It destroyed 287 homes in this tightly knit community as it tore across San Diego County, claiming 280,000 acres, 2,800 dwellings and ...

California Wildfires: Firefighters Profile Firefighters in southern California are working night and day to keep wildfires from destroying more land. ... October 29, 2003 12:00 AM ET.

The two largest firestorms have already been ranked by state fire officials among California's 20 most-damaging. Skip to ... 1,003 structures in October 2003, 6 deaths, across 91,281 acres in ...