During a week of flames, upscale Bel-Air homes burn as fire roars through canyon
(LA Times Dodgers)

The fires rampaging across Southern California on Wednesday ripped through a Bel-Air canyon in the hills above UCLA, an elite enclave where backyard tennis courts are the norm and Rupert Murdoch owns a $30-million vineyard estate. As evening fell, the Skirball fire had scorched 475 acres of thick...