Aptopix California Wildfires
The Orange County Fire burns east of Irvine, Calif. on Monday, Oct. 22, 2007. Wildfires fanned by fierce desert winds consumed huge swaths of bone-dry Southern California, burning buildings and forcing more than 265,000 evacuations from Malibu to San Diego, including a jail, a hospital and nursing homes. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
