Residents help with garden hoses as a neighbor's home burns to the ground in Yorba Linda, California November 15, 2008. A wildfire whipped up by hurricane-force gusts raged through northwestern Los Angeles foothills on Saturday, burning homes and threatening the power supply of California's largest city. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County on Saturday following the loss of at least 165 homes by a raging wildfire fire. [China Daily/Agencies]