Skirball fire
A scorched pot is among the few remnants of a homeless site where investigators believe the Skirball blaze, which destroyed more than 400 acres, started.
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Firefighter Ken Williams puts out a hot spot on a fire-ravaged home along Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air.
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Firefighter Steve Barrett hits a hot spot on a fire-ravaged home on Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air.
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Firefighters work a hot spot next to a vineyard charred by the Skirball fire in Bel-Air on Thursday.
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The downtown Los Angeles skyline is visible through the smoke from the Skirball fire as seen from Bel-Air.
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A firefighter carries a hose up stairs at a home destroyed by the Skirball fire along Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighter Bobby D’Amico looks out over the Getty Center while monitoring the scene over Bel-Air, where the Skirball fire has destroyed several homes.
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A helicopter scouts for hot spots from the Skirball fire in Bel-Air.
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Firefighter Ray Schiller puts out a hot spot on a home destroyed by the Skirball fire on Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air.
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A firefighter monitors the scene over Bel-Air, where the Skirball fire has destroyed several homes.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
The Getty Center seen through the smoke of the Skirball fire.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A mansion is framed by trees charred in the Skirball fire in Bel-Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A Los Angeles City firefighter makes his way toward a home on Casiano Road that was destroyed by the Skirball fire.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles City firefighters Florin Sarbu, left, Dan Smithers and Robert Caropino monitor the Skirball fire from the backyard of a home on Casiano Road.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Fredi Seraydarian, left, her husband, Paul, and son Mark wave to a helicopter pilot after he filled up with water at the Stone Canyon Reservoir.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
A Bel-Air home home on Linda Flora Drive burns in the Skirball fire.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
The bedroom of a home is engulfed in flames from the Skirball fire along Linda Flora Drive in Bel Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters battle a blaze at a home along Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters work to save a home along Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A car lies among the ruins caused by the Skirball fire at the end of Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters try to save a home along Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air, where the Skirball fire prompted closure of the 405 Freeway as well as mandatory evacuations.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A helicopter makes a water drop on the Skirball fire in Bel Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters try to save a home along Linda Flora Drive.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A helicopter makes a water drop on the Skirball fire that threatened several homes along Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters try to save a home along Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters near Linda Flora Drive in Bel-Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A plume of smoke from the Skirball fire looms over a home in Bel Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters in Bel-Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Smoke and fire from the Skirball fire threatens homes in Bel Air.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Aerial view of Bel Air area from Van Nuys, where the Skirball fire has prompted a closure of the 405 Freeway as well as mandatory evacuations in an area of multimillion-dollar homes.
(KTLA)
Orange flames peek through heavy smoke from the Skirball fire in Bel-Air.
(KTLA-TV)
A helicopter makes a water dump on the Skirball fire burning Wednesday in the Bel-Air neighborhood.
(KTLA-TV)
Fire burning in the hills of Bel-Air forced mandatory evacuations in an area of multimillion-dollar homes.
(KTLA-TV)
The Skirball fire prompted a full closure of the 405 Freeway and mandatory evacuations.
(KTLA-TV)
Smoke from the Skirball fire billows above the Sepulveda Pass at sunrise on Wednesday morning.
(KTLA-TV)
A helicopter drops water on a fire burning in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air neighborhood.
(KTLA-TV)
The terrain is almost obscured by smoke from the Skirball fire Wednesday morning.
(KTLA-TV)