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The Suisun City Fire Department in the 1920s at its downtown location.

Photos courtesy of Suisun City Fire Department

Suisun City Fire Department marks 160 years of service

The Suisun City Fire Department today.

Amy mAginnis-Honey

AmAGINNIS@dAILyREPuBLIC.NET

SuISuN CITy — The Fire department is celebrating its 160th anniversary this year.

That’s quite a feat since the city is 150 years old.

“The Fire department predates the city,” Fire Chief Justin Vincent said at a recent City Council meeting.

It was launched by the union Army.

The department secured a hand-pulled cart from San Francisco in August 1861. The story, Vincent said, is that it was too much for the steep hills and had rolled downhill, killing a firefighter.

The department still has that piece of equipment.

A fire devastated much of downtown Suisun City in 1869. An eight-square block area was lost to fire in 1988.

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Ready to rocket, Bezos aims to open up space tourism

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SEATTLE — When Kent, Washington-based Blue Origin on Tuesday rockets Jeff Bezos upward on its first mission carrying humans into space, the wealthiest man on the planet will be blazing the trail of a newly hot recreation for the very rich: space tourism.

Bezos, creator of Amazon, founder and bankroller of Blue Origin, follows on the tail of the heavily marketed trip to space just days earlier by fellow billionaire Richard Branson in a Virgin Galactic spaceplane.

On Blue Origin’s rockets, tickets for its 11-minute thrill ride are initially expected to cost in excess of $300,000 per seat.

If an ephemeral experience with just three minutes of weightlessness seems a frivolous

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Abaca via ZUMA Press/TNS The company Blue Origin founded by American billionaire Jeff Bezos will send humans into space for the first time Tuesday, for a journey of a few minutes in zero gravity aboard his New Shepard rocket. A seat on a rocket is up for auction, but its price already exceeds $2.2 million.

Megafire, two other blazes sweep NorCal

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Fueled by a trifecta of dangerous weather conditions – strong winds, low humidity and high temperatures – a series of wildfires, including a socalled megafire that has already charred more than 100,000 acres, continue to burn huge swaths of drought-dried vegetation in Northern California.

In Plumas County, the massive Sugar fire, the first megafire in California this year, had burned more than 105,000 acres by Sunday morning and was 73% contained, officials said.

The blaze, which at one point grew with such speed that its cloud of smoke, ash and heat generated its own lightning,

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