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FREE 21 Dec 2017 – 3 Jan 2018 Vol 23 Issue 51
The Voice of the Village
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SCORCHED BUT SAFE!
IT TOOK OVER 8,000 FIREFIGHTERS – WHO CAME FROM OREGON TO NEW MEXICO AND PLACES IN BETWEEN – BUT IN AN EPIC BATTLE WITH ONE OF THE LARGEST WILDFIRES IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY, THIS ARMY OF PROFESSIONALS, WITH HELP FROM MILITARY DRONES FLYING OVERHEAD FROM PT. MUGU, USING SOPHISTICATED FLIR INFRARED EQUIPMENT TO PINPOINT FLAMES THROUGH THE DENSE SMOKE, ALONG WITH DOZENS OF BULLDOZERS AND EARTH MOVERS, NEARLY A THOUSAND FIRE TRUCKS, A FLEET OF HELICOPTERS, DC 10S, AND OTHER AIRCRAFT, THEY CONQUERED THE BLAZE. THEY WON THE BATTLE. MONTECITO WAS SAVED. (STORIES ON PAGES 5, 12 AND 20)