Southern California wildfires destroy more than 200 homes
Sunday, October 26, 2003
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- A wildfire leaped through dense housing tracts in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains on Saturday, destroying more than 200 homes, threatening 1,000 others and forcing thousands of people to flee under a sky thick with smoke and tinged orange-red by flames.
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