Authorities outside Los Angeles struggled to contain the Colby Fire, which has caused thousands in the parched foothills to evacuate. A look at the toll on the ground.
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Firefighters monitor the Colby Fire burning for a second day on a hillside on Highway 39 in Azusa, Calif., on Friday. Three men have been arrested and charged with starting the fire that has now destroyed 1,700 acres and several homes around Glendora and Azusa in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley, prompting officials to order evacuations for houses near the fire.
Thick smoke fills the morning skies as firefighters battled the Colby Fire, in the hills of Glendora on Thursday. The wildfire roared out of control in foothills above Los Angeles, forcing more than 1,000 residents to flee, fire and law enforcement officials said.
Jim Crawford, 67, and his daughter, Katie, 11, who live nearby, watch the wildfires burn through the hillsides on Thursday in Glendora, Calif.
A plane works to control wildfires as they burn through hillsides near Azusa, Calif.
A helicopter drops water. The wind-whipped blaze erupted before dawn on Thursday in the Angeles National Forest north of Glendora, about 40 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
Firefighters are hit by heavy boulders rolling downhill, with one suffering a broken ankle, as they battled the Colby Fire on Thursday.
The Colby Fire is seen in this satellite image captured just after noon PT on Thursday, in this picture provided by NASA.
A "super scooper" air tanker makes water drops in the hills of Glendora on Thursday.
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Firefighter Jason Mendoza helps extinguish the wildfires as they near the house of Michael Allawos on Glendora's Highcrest Road on Thursday.
A homes is engulfed in flames near Glendora.
A local resident uses a garden hose to protect his home in Glendora.
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Firefighters watch as water falls from a firefighting aircraft in Azusa on Thursday.
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Homes are engulfed in flames, as media reports on the Colby Fire in Glendora on Thursday.
The Colby Fire claims a Glendora home.
Flames claimed the Singer Mansion, north of Glendora.
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