The numbers are painful. Three Southern California wildfires had eaten up 117,546 acres by Saturday, Sept. 21, damaging at least 55 structures and destroying another 242 — many of them homes. Twenty-four firefighters and civilians had been injured.

While most Southern California residents are almost a couple of weeks removed from being draped by massive clouds of smoke, fire crews are still battling the region’s three major wildfires as of Saturday.