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10,000 homes are threatened

latimes.com
Aug. 30, 2009
Across the burning foothills, 1,000 are ordered to flee. Others watch, and dread the phone call to evacuate. The unstoppable Angeles National Forest fire threatened 10,000 homes Saturday night as it more than tripled in size and chewed through a rapidly widening swath of the Crescenta Valley,...
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