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BigmanPigman

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4. The Cedar fire burned 3,000 structures

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Mon Aug 6, 2018, 05:35 PM

Aug 2018

in 2003 and the Witch Fire in 2007 burned about 2,000 is something that I live with and hadn't realized until a few weeks ago. I drove over to my parents house and when I got out of my car and smelled smoke my heart stopped and I ran inside and asked if they were BBQing. The smell of smoke in the Summer scares me to death now. I opened my back door two days ago and smelled smoke and looked at my dog, turned on the news and ran outside to check the color of the sky. My emergency backpack is for fires and no longer earthquakes.

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