The Cedar Fire remains the worst wildfire in California's history in size (280,278 acres, or 438 square miles), buildings destroyed (2,820, including over 2,200 homes), and people killed (15).

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Very scary,” said Bob Ilko, President Of The Scripps Ranch Civic Association. Hundreds of thousands of acres burned, and more than 2,000 homes lost. Bob Ilko’s home was almost one of them.

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Scripps Ranch residents recalled their own experiences with the catastrophic Cedar Fire in 2003, as multiple wildfires burned out of control in Los Angeles.

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The Scripps Ranch Fire Safe Council began as a group of concerned homeowners following the Cedar Fire with the initial mission to clear the ground fuel and create a firebreak for the neighborhood.

“It was a war zone.” The fire killed 15 people, burned about 280,000 acres and destroyed 2,800 buildings, including 312 homes in Scripps Ranch. Ilko talked with FOX 5 and showed the damage.

“One of the memories that sticks with me, it was probably around 9:30 a.m. or so, our assignment desk said the fire had reached Scripps Ranch.

Many houses were lost in the Cedar Fire because embers flew ahead of the firestorm, got lodged in the eaves and burned the roof. Scripps Ranch was once distinctive for its shake-shingle roofs.

SAN DIEGO — When the 2003 Cedar fire destroyed more than 300 homes in Scripps Ranch, residents there banded together to negotiate with insurance companies, make deals with custom home builders ...