Students make their way across Alscott Ave near White Oak Elementary school in Chatsworth, Calif., as smoke billows. Fire officials say the Chatsworth fire in the west end of the San Fernando Valley has grown to 1,000 acres and the fire near Calimesa in Riverside County has blackened 1,300 acres.
The charred remains of a residence that was in the path of the fire smolders in Chatsworth, Calif.