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CBS' Dean Reynolds went along as firefighters enforced mandatory evacuation orders in San Diego's Spring Valley neighborhood. He found some homeowners staying put, "in a serious state of denial." A fire along a ridge on San Miguel Mountain was "of special concern" as it moved towards a "house, where, we are told, there are several 55-gallon drums of racing fuel…if those things explode the whole hilltop will become an inferno." In the San Diego suburb of Rancho Bernardo, NBC's Don Teague showed us neighbors gather in a grocery store parking lot as one by one, the address of each destroyed home was read aloud. "The house is gone. We have nothing," a newly homeless resident declared.
All three networks sent reporters to Lake Arrowhead where "house after house after house burned to the ground," as ABC's Laura Marquez put it. She showed us a former patio set, "the only indication this once was a porch." CBS' Bill Whitaker took us to the bottom of one mountainside: "It is so steep and so dry that all it takes is one gust of wind to send these flames shooting straight up the mountain." NBC's Lester Holt (no link), meanwhile, offered the overhead shot of the same phenomenon from a helicopter: "We have watched these flames march right up the ridge…huge, huge flames now and they move very quickly."
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