Residents Get Another Chance to Tour Sylmar Homes Today

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Hundreds of residents of a burned-out mobile home park in Los Angeles are expected to line up today to see the devastation for themselves.

Others were allowed in yesterday. One man said "pretty much everything's ruined" after seeing the devastation from the fast-moving wildfire that tore through his community.

Michael Hernandez was one of several residents of Oakridge Mobile Home Park allowed to tour what is now a field of blackened trees and twisted metal. Nearly 500 homes were destroyed there but, so far, no bodies have been found.

The Sylmar fire is one of three in the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara areas that destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and apartments and burned 42,000 acres, or 65 square miles. The causes of all three fires are under investigation, although a human cause is suspected in a Santa Barbara County blaze.

Authorities reportedly say at least one of the other fires started due to something like exhaust from a passing vehicle. The Corona fire chief told the Riverside Press-Enterprise he wants to allay fears that "an arsonist is out there."

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