A firefighting helicopter drops water on a commercial building engulfed in flames. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Heavy smoke fills the air as firefighters hose down burning embers to keep flames from jumping Aviara Parkway. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
A San Diego Sheriff’s Department helicopter drops fire retardant Wednesday. (Cheryl A. Guerrero / Los Angeles Times)
A firefighter tries to extinguish flames on an apartment building in the hills around Carlsbad. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters pour water onto the Ambrosia apartment complex to keep flames from spreading to other structures. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
A Rancho Santa Fe firefighter douses hot spots from the Bernardo fire at the remains of a property that burned in the 2007 Witch fire in northern San Diego County. (Stuart Palley / EPA)
A hand crew puts out hot spots on a ridgeline charred by wildfire in Carlsbad on Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters put out flames in Carlsbad. (Cheryl A. Guerrero / Los Angeles Times)
With a helicopter nearby, firefighters put out a blaze that broke out early Wednesday in Carlsbad. (Cheryl A. Guerrero / Los Angeles Times)
A home is destroyed by the brush fire in Carlsbad off Poinsettia Lane near the 5 Freeway. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Sophie Payne walks past what is left of her home on Black Rail Road after it was destroyed in the Poinsettia wildfire on May 14, 2014 in Carlsbad, Calif. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Family members watch as the remains of their home smolder after it was destroyed in the Poinsettia fire. From left: Anya Bannasch, Bronson Payne, J.J. Bannasch with dog Rocky and Sophie Payne. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Gilbert Cope surveys a destroyed home in the 1700 block of Skimmer Court in Carlsbad. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Anya Bannasch looks at her parents home destroyed in wildfire on Black Rail Road in Carlsbad. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
