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All the foliage that held the mountainside together is burned away, and so there’s nothing holding the ground together anymore.

Then the winds that night on Jan. 7 blew a shower of sparks across the mountainside above his Pasadena home.

It was blazing under a large metal utility tower on the mountainside.

The Chuckwalla monument begins in the west around Painted Canyon, an area where the mountainside is stained deep red, pink, green and gray.

Desperate residents might as well have been alone on a remote, flaming mountainside.