size of the fires said cal fire spokesman brice bennettyou could overlay half of one of these fires and it covers the entire city of san francisco bennett said on sundayin southern california an 11dayold blaze held steady at just under 50 square miles 106 square kilometers near lake hughes in the northern los angeles county mountains rough terrain hot weather and the potential for thunderstorms with lightning strikes challenged firefighters on sundayauthorities said their firefighting effort in santa cruz was hindered by people who refused to evacuate and those who were using the chaos to loot santa cruz county sheriff jim hart said 100 officers were patrolling and anyone not authorized to be in an evacuation zone would be arrestedwhat were hearing from the community is that theres a lot of looting going on hart saidhe and county district attorney jeff rosell expressed anger at what rosell called the absolutely soulless criminals victimizing people already victimized by the fire among them was a fire commander who was robbed when he left his fire vehicle to help direct operationssomeone entered the vehicle and stole personal items including a wallet and drained his bank account said chief mark brunton a battalion chief for the california department of forestry and fire protectioni cant imagine a bigger lowlife hart saidholly hansen who fled the wine country fire was among evacuees from the community of angwin allowed sunday to return home for one hour to retrieve belongings she and her three dogs waited five hours in her suv for their turn among the items she took with her were photos of her petsits horrible when you have to think about what to take she said i think its a very raw human base emotion to have fear of fire and losing everything its frightening