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California Wildfires – Why Some Averted Disaster
October 24, 2007
For nearly an hour, Marianne Shannon thought Stevenson Ranch’s luck had run out.
The winds seemed so fast, much stronger than in 2003, when the last massive fire threatened her home. She watched from her cul-de-sac Monday afternoon as flames exploded just a few hundred feet away. A firefighter told her to take down her curtains to prevent them from igniting. Gusts knocked down the faux headstones she’d set up for Halloween.
Then as quickly as the danger came, the threat passed.
“The firemen were saying we were pretty well protected,” Shannon said.
Read the entire article as published by the LA Times newspaper
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