'Worst in My Lifetime': Wind-Whipped Fires Char 500 Mobile Homes

When the Santa Ana winds howl in Southern California, they often have disaster written on them. Their near-hurricane force combined with single-digit relative humidity and heat wave temperatures are the worst-case scenario in what has become virtually a year-round fire season here. A "red flag warning" issued earlier in the week meant little when the first fire near Santa Barbara broke out on Thursday followed by a second firestorm in the San Fernando Valley on Friday. And by this afternoon... Full Story