Not everything. Those who evacuated are probably at QualComm stadium on Friar's Road, just north of I-8 in Mission Valley, unless they made other arrangements with friends.

The scope of actual destruction is entirely unpredictable. It is perfectly common to find a house touched by nothing buit a few smoke stains when every building for four blocks in every direction has been reduced to embers and ash.

A few gains have recently been made, allowng some Poway area residents to return to their homesites, and re-opening the Highway 94 traffic flow. I-15 is now open running north and south. But there is still a county-wide battle going on.

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