In Los Angeles, the thick brush had been baked by temperatures above 100 degrees and swept by winds of 25 m.p.h. Suddenly, huge sections of vegetation were ablaze. According to witnesses, a man and a woman had jumped out of a white car and ignited the city's worst fire in 24 years. In San Diego, 120 miles to the south, some of the canyon brush had grown 12 ft. high and turned tinder-dry in the record heat. It too caught fire, starting the most serious residential blaze in the city's history. Investigators said it was almost certainly a case of arson.
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