
A firefighting aircraft drop retardant on the flames burning over a ridge into Rattlesnake Canyon near Santa Barbara, Calif., Thursday, May 7, 2009. The fire remained out of control and firefighters were on alert for a predicted return of a "Sundowner" fierce winds that late in the day can sweep down from the Santa Ynez Mountains towering close behind Santa Barbara. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Firefighters from the city of San Bernardino spray around a home threatened by flames approaching Santa Teresita Way as the Jesusita fire burns in Santa Barbara, Calif., Thursday evening, May 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Spl. Taylor Jordan from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry lifts weights in the rain at his platoon's base Camp Restrepo in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar Province on Friday May 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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