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Photos: High winds topple trees in southern California

Ivette Crenshaw — shown with her dog, Kiba — had her car crushed under a fallen tree Saturday on 11th Street in Upland.
(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
By Irfan KhanStaff Photographer 
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Strong Santa Ana winds roared through southern California on Saturday, knocking down trees and power lines. A high-wind warning ran through the evening.

A woman with a felled tree
A tree fell outside the home of Ormalinda Osuna on Saturday in Upland.
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A child takes a photo of a woman with a felled tree
Lydia Wu, 48, poses for daughter Melody, 9, in front of a tree toppled by winds that blocked College Avenue at Pomona College.
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A trail is littered with fallen tree branches.
A popular walking trail on Euclid Avenue in Upland is littered with fallen tree branches.
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Fallen trees on 11th street in Upland.
Residents look at fallen trees in Upland.
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A pedestrian walks pass a massive tree toppled
A tree fell on 4th Street in Ontario.
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A massive tree toppled in overnight high winds in Claremont.
A massive tree toppled in front of McConnell Center at Pitzer College in Claremont.
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Irfan Khan

Irfan Khan has been a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1996. He previously served as a freelance photographer for the publication beginning in 1989. Khan started his career as a commercial photographer in 1973 in Pakistan and moved to Dubai in 1977, where he worked for an advertising agency and at a leading English newspaper. Khan’s assignments have taken across Southern California and the U.S. Internationally, he has photographed the Hajj in Saudi Arabia and war zones of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to semi-classical music of the Indian subcontinent and playing cricket on Sundays.

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