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Carl Cortez of Lake Arrowhead looks over the wall enclosing Oakridge Mobile Home Park on Monday morning. His mother's and his sister's mobile homes were destroyed when fire swept through the Sylmar mobile home park. Cortez said, "The fire must have been unbelievably hot to melt steel like it did."

Sayre fire - Oakridge Mobile Home Park

( Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / November 17, 2008 )

Carl Cortez of Lake Arrowhead looks over the wall enclosing Oakridge Mobile Home Park on Monday morning. His mother's and his sister's mobile homes were destroyed when fire swept through the Sylmar mobile home park. Cortez said, "The fire must have been unbelievably hot to melt steel like it did."

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