Wildfires: Day 8

S. Sarah Barklow stands amid the rubble of her home on Padua Avenue in Claremont.  (Luis Sinco / LAT)

The Barklow family sifts through rubble of their home on Padua Avenue in Claremont.  (Luis Sinco / LAT)

Property owner Jill Barklow tells an L.A. County firefighter that he’s “a day late and a dollar short.” Barklow contends that government agencies did not do enough to save homes along Padua Avenue in Claremont.  (Luis Sinco / LAT)

A house on Deercrest Street in Devore burns. Firefighters arrived later to keep the fire from jumping to dry brush nearby.  (Gina Ferazzi / LAT)

Evacuee Ron Kato, with his dog Rocky, puts on a fireproof mask as the wildfire burns near his Devore home.  (Gina Ferazzi / LAT)

A firefighter is framed in the doorway of a burning home off Deercrest Street in Devore. Many of the homes on this street burned to the ground.  (Gina Ferazzi / LAT)

A deer near Interstate 15 in Devore seems to have no place to go as the wildfire flares up in her path.  (Gina Ferazzi / LAT)

Firefighters reach a home engulfed in flames on Deercrest Street in Devore.  (Gina Ferazzi / LAT)

San Bernardino County fireman Craig Kiss dampens brush below Rim Forest. Several homes in the town were destroyed overnight.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Mei Mei sits in an antique pickup truck as his owner prepares for an oncoming fire in the town of Descanso in San Diego County.  (Wally Skalij / LAT)

Duncan McFetridge covers his 1955 International truck as smoke billows in the distance east of San Diego.  (Wally Skalij / LAT)

A cat named ‘Slinker Bay’ lies on his owner’s car dashboard before they evacuate the town of Descanso in San Diego County.  (Wally Skalij / LAT)

Crest residents Arlon and Jeanne Christensen console each other at the site of their destroyed home. The small hillside town in Eastern San Diego County lost over 200 homes during the recent firestorm. Residents say that a third of the town has been wiped out.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

Crest resident Judy Richardson gets a hug from friend Pat Brady in Richardson’s burnt home. Richardson lost her home in the fire of 1970 and rebuilt using adobe and non-combustible materials. She lost this home in the firestorm that swept through the area.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

Crest resident Judy Richardson rescues her cat, “Cali” from the debris of her home. The cat survived by hiding on a neighboring property that didn’t burn.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

Crest resident Arlon Christensen recovers a concrete slab that contains the handprints of his children and grandchildren.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

Capt. Gary Benedict of the San Bernardino Fire Dept. turns off a water main at the site where three homes were lost in Rim Forest.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

San Bernardino firefighter Aaron Feenstra walks near Rim Forest to cut down trees that could help the fire spread.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Solano Beach firefighters John Siberell, left, and Steve Perry battle a wall of fire near Rim Forest.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Firefighters work to protect a house near Highway 18. The home was saved.  (Richard Hartog / LAT)

A firefighter turns away from the heat near Highway 18.  (Richard Hartog / LAT)

Betty Gilmore ponders whether she can save her dining room table in her mobile home in the Villa Del Arroyo Mobile Home Park in Moorpark.  (Anne Cusack / LAT)

Backfires set along Highway 18 create huge plumes of smoke as the sun filters through just east of Rim Forest and south of Lake Arrowhead.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)