Woolsey and Hill fires scorch Ventura and Los Angeles counties
Los Angeles County coroner’s workers recover a body at a burned home in the 32000 block of Lobo Canyon Road in Agoura Hills on Wednesday.
(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)Whipped by powerful winds, fires rip through several communities in Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
Residents and volunteers bring in supplies for people in the Paradise Cove area of Malibu. Surfboards, kayaks, small motor boats and stand-up paddleboards were used to get supplies from the boat to shore.
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A man ferries cases of water by surfboard to help residents in the Paradise Cove area of Malibu.
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Residents and volunteers who traveled by yacht from Redondo Beach come ashore with water and other supplies to help people in the Paradise Cove area of Malibu.
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David Carr cries as he hugs his partner Rachel Bailey as they stand at their home in the Oak Forest Mobile Estates in Westlake Village destroyed in the Woolsey Fire. “I loved this house,” David Carr said.
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“We lost everything,” said Rachel Bailey. Bailey and her partner, David Carr, were vacationing in Mexico. They flew back Monday and saw what was left of their street in Oak Forest Mobile Estates in Westlake Village.
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LA County firefighter Battalion 13 Captain Victor Correa helps put out hotspot in a neighborhood on Harvester road in Malibu.
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Bell Canyon residents wait for their name to be called after adding it to a list, to be escorted by police to their homes. If their homes were intact, they were given 10 minutes to retrieve important items, or the same time to view damage from the Woosley Fire.
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9-year-old Landon Quirk came with his father Trevor Quirk to help search through the rubble of a friend’s home in the Seminole Springs mobile home on Mulholland Drive in Agoura Hills.
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Landon Quirk holds an object while searching through the rubble of a friend’s home in the Seminole Springs mobile home park.
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L.A. County Sheriff’s cruise the Seminole Springs mobile home park on Mulholland Drive in Agoura Hills.
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Seminole Springs Mobile Home resident Barbara Sottile walks past homes of friends destroyed in the fire.
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AGOURA HILLS, CA - NOVEMBER 12, 2018. Seminole Springs Mobile Home resident Barbara Sottile takes a photo of a rainbow created by spraying water on homes destroyed in the development on Mulholland Drive in Agoura Hills.
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Firefighter Adam Rodriguez from Eloy, Ariz., sprays foam on a hot spot in a home on Mulholland Drive in the Malibu Hills that was destroyed by the Woolsey fire.
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Firefighters from the L.A. County Fire Department put out a flare-up along Pacific Coast Highway across the street from the Malibu Beach RV Park on Monday morning.
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Keith Clark, left, and Shane Clark sift through the rubble of Shane Clark’s Bell Canyon home, which was consumed by the Woolsey fire.
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A firefighter works to put out hot spots in and around structures destroyed by the Woolsey fire in Bell Canyon on Sunday.
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Paullette Koenig hugs neighbor Gai Farbenbloom after both lost their homes at the Seminole Springs mobile home park in Malibou Lake.
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A Southern California Edison employee hoses down a hot spot off Kanan Road on Nov. 10. The crew was checking for hot spots around power lines.
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A Los Angeles County Firefighter fights a structure fire at Camp 13, an inmate fire crew camp run by the Los Angeles County Fire Department off Decker Road above Malibu.
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A Los Angeles County firefighter runs while working to fight a structure fire at Camp 13 in Malibu.
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Anne Marie Mueller is notified by L.A. County Sheriff’s Officer Ernie Ferreras that her friends in Malibu are safe.
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A man stands in the middle of the street at the Seminole Springs mobile home park in Malibou Lake.
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Matt Sexton goes through the rubble from his house in Seminole Springs.
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Michael Quane of El Segundo came to the El Porto area of Manhattan Beach to surf against the backdrop of billowing smoke from the Woolsey fire over Santa Monica.
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Mark Cassar, at the entrance of his brother’s Westlake Village home his father built in 1990. The home was destroyed in the Woolsey fire.
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Garet Anzalone, 23, is tearful as he goes through his grandmother’s burned-out property in a mobile home park in Westlake Village.
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David Spence, left, with friend Eric Winger, takes photos of his 1976 TR6 after the fire in a mobile home park in Westlake Village.
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Lori Jackson, 52, looks for items that survived the fire in a mobile home park in Westlake Village.
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An American flag is melted on a burned-out car on property in a mobile home park in Westlake Village.
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Garet Anzalone surveys his grandmother’s burned-out property in a mobile home park in Westlake Village.
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A home on Bell Canyon Boulevard in Bell Canyon was destroyed by the Woolsey fire.
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Los Angeles County firefighters extinguish a burning building at a residence off Kanan Road in Malibu on Saturday. The main house was undamaged.
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A scorched sign at the visitor center at Leo Carrillo State Beach, which was destroyed by the Woolsey fire.
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Cars parked in front of the ruins of a house destroyed by the Woolsey fire off Kanan Road in Malibu on Saturday.
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Los Angeles firefighters Ryan Miller, left, Justin Randolph and Kobe Sallstrom grab some brief rest at the corner of Flintlock Lane and Silver Spur Lane in Bell Canyon on Saturday.
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Los Angeles firefighter Brittney Bebek sprays hot spots on Hitching Post Lane in Bell Canyon on Saturday.
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A firefighter requests more water pressure as a house burns from the Woolsey Fire along P.C.H. in Malibu.
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Firefighters walk near homes that are threatened by the Woolsey fire in Malibu. This homes in the area are known as Native.
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The Woolsey fire bears down on Pepperdine University.
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A firefighter walks towards his engine after trying to prevent the Woolsey fire from overtaking structures in Malibu.
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Bell Canyon residents Kathleen and Eric Lee, left, watch the Woolsey fire at the mouth of Bell Canyon after evacuating.
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Bell Canyon residents Ann and Roger Bloxberg watch the Woolsey fire at the mouth of Bell Canyon after evacuating.
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A resident packs up his car as the Woolsey fire bears down on Dume Drive in Malibu.
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Employees of a nearby confectionery use rakes and shovels to battle the Woolsey fire along Agoura Road in Westlake Village.
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The Woolsey fire burns near homes in West Hills.
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Firefighters fight to save the home of Will Buckley on Dume Drive.
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Llamas are tied to a lifeguard stand on the beach in Malibu as the Woolsey fire approaches.
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A multi million dollar home on Dawn Meadow Court in the High Country neighborhood of North Ranch in Westlake Village continues to burn destroyed by fire Friday morning.
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Oak Park resident Tom Duffy hoses hot spots on a burnt house on Wembly Avenue.
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David Spence returns to find his home and belongings burnt in the Oak Forest Estates mobile home park in Westlake Village.
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Firefighters try to save a burning home on Dapplegray Road in Bell Canyon.
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Maria Narvaez evacuates her home on Almon Dr near Hillcrest in Thousand Oaks as Santa Ana winds continue to blow Friday morning.
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Mayor and firefighter Rick Mullen surveys a house on fire in Malibu as the Woolsey fire continues its path to the coast.
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Firefighters battle a house fire on Churchwood Drive as the Woolsey Fire burns in the Oak Park neighborhood early Friday morning.
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Resident Brett Hammond evacuates in Malibu as the Woolsey Fire approaches.
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An owl sits onthe beach in Malibu as the Woolsey fire approaches.
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Horses are tied to a pole on the beach in Malibu as the Woolsey fire approaches.
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Pacific Coast Highway backs up out of Malibu as the Woolsey fire forced evacuations Friday.
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Horses are turned loose at the top of Las Trancas Canyon in Malibu on Friday as the Woolsey fire approaches.
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Onlookers watch smoke from the Woolsey fire and take photos on Pacific Coast Highway looking southeast toward Malibu on Friday.
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The Woolsey fire approaches the top of Las Trancas Canyon Road on Friday morning.
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Smoke from the Woolsey fire darkens the sky over the Pacific Ocean near Malibu on Friday.
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Pacific Coast Highway backs up out of Malibu as the Woolsey fire forced evacuations Friday.
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Jennifer Carter protects her face from smoke outside her home on Almon Drive in Thousand Oaks where several homes have been destroyed by the wind driven Woolsey fire.
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Residents with a home on Las Trancas Canyon Road watch as the Woolsey fire approaches their home Friday.
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A firefighter extinguishes brush threatening a home on Quinta Visa Dr and E Hillcrest Rd in Thousand Oaks early Friday morning.
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Maria Narvaez evacuates her home on Almon Dr. near Hillcrest in Thousand Oaks as Santa Ana winds continue to blow Friday morning.
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Jesse Castro with Glendale Fire Dept shoots water into a home on Almon destroyed by the Woolsey fire.
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A firefighter battles a car fire on Churchwood Drive as the Woolsey fire rips Oak Park early Friday.
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Crews battle flames consuming a house on Churchwood Drive as the Woolsey fire tears through Oak Park early Friday.
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Crews battle flames consuming a home on Churchwood Drive as the Woolsey fire rips through the Oak Park neighborhood early Friday.
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A giant plume of smoke from the Woolsey Fire rises above homes in Calabasas.
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A resident evacuates his home in Thousand Oaks early Friday morning with only the clothes on his back. Residents were awoken in the middle of the night by mandatory evacuations from the Woolsey fire.
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Firefighters try to keep embers from spreading to houses off Wembly Avenue and Lindero Canyon Road Thursday night as the Woolsey fire rages.
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Carolina Heuel, a resident of the Miramonte Palmeras Tierras condominium complex in Camarillo Springs, prepares to evacuate after loading her two cats and a cockatiel into her car.
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