PHOTOS: Multiple fires scorch SoCal

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Thursday, May 15, 2014
A 'firenado' forms near firefighters in San Diego County on Friday, May 16, 2014.
Firefighters attack flames in San Diego County on Friday, May 16, 2014.
A firefighters mops up flames in a burned-out structure in San Diego County on Friday, May 16, 2014.
A water-dropping helicopter targets a patch of brush fire in San Diego County on Friday, May 16, 2014.
A firefighter on a fire line in San Diego County, Friday, May 16, 2014.
Firefighters attack a fire line in San Diego County on Friday, May 16, 2014.
A fire line in San Diego County, Friday, May 16, 2014.
The view of a burned area from a damaged residence in San Diego County, Friday, May 16, 2014.
A structure burns in one of several wildfires in San Diego, Thursday, May 15, 2014.
Flames burn on a hillside in San Diego County, on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
Spot fires burn on a hilltop in San Diego County on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
A house burns in San Diego County on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
A house burns in San Diego County on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
Flames approach homes in San Diego County on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
Hilltop homes burn in San Diego County on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
A firefighter mops up hot spots at a fire-damaged complex in Carlsbad on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
A water-dropping helicopter flies over a burn area in San Diego County on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
An aerial view of a burned area in San Diego County on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
Firefighters work on a fire in San Diego County on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
A 'firenado' burns above houses in San Diego County on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
A 'firenado' burns above houses in San Diego County on Thursday, May 15, 2014.
A fire burns dangerously close to a house in one of several wildfires in San Diego, Thursday, May 15, 2014.
Flames threaten homes in Carlsbad, California, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
Flames threaten a house in Carlsbad, California, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
Brush fire in Carlsbad, California, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
Inland Empire Bureau Chief Rob McMillan took this photo of flames burning on the west side of the 15 Freeway with homes threatened at the top of the hill, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
Brush fire in Carlsbad, California, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
Fire crews work in a Carlsbad neighborhood on Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
One of at least 30 homes destroyed by fire in Carlsbad, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Photo: Inland Empire Bureau Chief Rob McMillan
Inland Empire Bureau Chief Rob McMillan took this photo of flames climbing hills above homes near Camp Pendleton area, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
Fire crews mop up the remains of a brush fire in Santa Paula that prompted the closure of the 126 Freeway on Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
A brush fire broke out on the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base in San Diego County on Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
A brush fire broke out on the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base in San Diego County on Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
A house is damaged by flames from a brush fire in Carlsbad, California, on Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
Fire crews mop up a grass fire off the 91 Freeway in Anaheim on Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
Fire crews work on a brush fire alongside the 405 Freeway near the 118 Freeway in Granada Hills on Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
A brush fire burned alongside the 405 Freeway near the 118 Freeway in Granada Hills on Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
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PHOTOS: Multiple fires scorch SoCalA 'firenado' forms near firefighters in San Diego County on Friday, May 16, 2014.

LOS ANGELES -- Flames engulfed suburban homes and shot up along canyon ridges in one of the worst of several blazes that broke out Wednesday in Southern California during a second day of a sweltering heat wave. Firefighters scrambled to extinguish the blazes from Santa Paula to Camp Pendleton to Carlsbad.