The McHenry family cheers as a Sikorsky S-64 Sky Crane firefighting helicopter goes in for another load of water at Yucaipa Regional Park while fighting the Oak Glen and Yucaipa fires Tuesday. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighter Matthew Cleaver is illuminated by the glow of a backfire in La Cresenta Monday. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters keep watch on a backfire behind homes on the 2800 block of Pinelawn Dr. in La Cresenta Monday. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles firefighter Thomas Rindge takes a break from battling the Station fire in La Crescenta Monday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
View from a burned out truck across acres of scorched hillsides in Acton as smoke rises from Mt. Gleason in the distance Monday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
A towering cloud from the super-heated Station fire in Angeles National Forest billows into a blue sky behind downtown Los Angeles on Monday. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Alexis Faieta cries in the back seat of the family vehicle as her parents, April and John Faieta, prepare to evacuate from Haines Canyon Avenue in Tujunga on Monday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
The Station fire bears down on Aliso Canyon Road in Acton, several miles north of the area where two L.A. County firefighters died Sunday night after their truck went down a mountainside. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Newhall residents Will Moriarty and his son Max, 2, keep an eye on the Station fire along Aliso Canyon Road in Acton on Sunday. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
"Stretch" Lewis hoses down the roof of his uncle's home on Cedarcroft Road on Sunday as flames approach. "I'll be damned if I give this home to fire," Lewis says. (Barbara Davidson/ Los Angeles Times)
Flames leap across Angeles Crest Highway Saturday. The road runs through the heart of the area charred by the Station fire. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Sonoma County firefighter Kenderic Braal tries to get some much needed rest early Saturday in La Cañada. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighters, from left, Steven Moak, Ken Nelson and Gil Alvarez with the Mountain Recreation Conservation Authority watch as a plane drops fire retardant Friday off Angeles Crest Highway. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
U.S. Forest Service firefighters retreat from the approaching Station fire on a ridge along Angeles Crest Highway in La Cañada Friday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
A U.S. Forest Service firefighter monitors the Station fire along Angeles Crest Highway in La Cañada Friday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
U.S. Forest Service firefighters race to battle the Station fire as it jumps Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest. The blaze spread as canyon winds whipped flames into dry brush Thursday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)