natural desaster in California.

Summer and early fall are wildfire season in many places, but few areas face as great a threat as the western part of the United States, which has an abundance of burnable brush and trees, in areas that rarely get much rainfall.
Conditions in early 2007 were unusually dry, with Southern California receiving only one-third of its normal of rain and the amount of snow in the mountains near Lake Tahoe, the location of an early blaze, only 29 percent of the usual level. Fires in the West have also become more difficult and costly to fight, as increased numbers of people have settled homes or built vacation houses in wooded areas near national parks. Wildfires in these areas are often caused by human activity, like untended campfires or discarded cigarettes.
In Southern California in October 2007, hundreds of square miles in seven counties were consumed by scores of fires, their flames fueled by high desert winds and hot temperatures that remained largely impervious to air attacks, garden hoses or fire retardant.
The authorities said the blazes, raging from the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles through San Diego County to the Mexican border, were responsible for several deaths. The fires consumed well over 1,400 homes and commercial structures, and threatened tens of thousands of others. As many as 500,000 people were estimated to have evacuated and thousands more were ordered to move, making the evacuation effort roughly half the size of that from the New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina. — John Holusha, June 26, 2007; UPDATED: Oct. 24, 2007 . In my opinion although i put in the title that this was caused by nature i also think that there are cruel people that make this bad things to deteriorate the environment or also it could have been an accident. I wish the firefighters and all the people that is helping with this can stop this situation because it is causing disasters and leaving millons of people without homes and familiars.