Images From Mobile Home Park Destroyed by Sayre Fire
The fire that tore through the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar left total devastation in its wake. According to LAFD Captain Steve Ruda, who spoke to evacuees gathered at Sylmar High School this morning, almost all of the approximately 600 homes in the community were burned to the ground. The Sayre Fire began at 10:30 Friday night and has burned at least 6500 acres and remains far from being contained. The LAPD now considers the Oakridge Mobile Home Park a "crime scene."
A statue stands in front of a home destroyed at the Oak Ridge Mobile Home Park in the northern San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. Fierce winds fanned a fast-moving wildfire that has burned homes and forced thousands of people and patients of a darkened hospital to evacuate. The fire in the foothill community of Sylmar on the edge of the Angeles National Forest broke out late Friday and charred over two square miles in a few hours, prompting officials to order about 5,000 residents to leave their homes. ((AP Photo/Reed Saxon))
