Sylmar fire

Adries Rios, left, comforts his mother, Mary Rios, who lost her home in the fire at Sylmar’s Oakridge Mobile Home Park. At right is her grandaughter Jacqueline Rios, 9. It is the third time that Mary Rios and her husband have lost their home. They also were displaced in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Oct. 5, 2015 10:28 PM PT

Roland Conder, foreground, who lives at Sylmar’s Oakridge Mobile Home Park, is among the residents waiting outside the park entrance to hear about the fate of their homes. Conder says he learned that his home was spared and hoped to get into it to retrieve some keys he needed. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

A distraught Joan Kezios, 78, waits to hear about the fate of her home at Sylmar’s Oakridge Mobile Home Park. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Joan Kezios, 78, left, cries as she is comforted by roommate Fran Benedetto, 65, while waiting to hear about the fate of their home at Sylmar’s Oakridge Mobile Home Park. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

A search dog named Kazaam takes a break while going through the rubble at Sylmar’s Oakridge Mobile Home Park, where authorities are looking for possible victims of the wildfire that destroyed more than 500 homes there. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Although more than 500 homes were destroyed in the fire that swept through Sylmar’s Oakridge Mobile Home Park, more than 100 were spared. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)