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| ID: | 411243 |
| Title: | Residents pull keepsakes from Calif. fire wreckage - http://www.topix.net/news/weather/2008/11/residents-pull-keepsakes-from-calif-fire-wreckage?fromrss=1 |
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| Description: | <p>Michael Hernandez pulled a charred photo album from the wreckage of his home, the plastic pages melted and flaking after a wildfire tore through the mobile home park where he lived with his grandparents and 7-year old daughter.</p><p>It was one of a handful of keepsakes Hernandez was able to rescue Monday during a police-escorted tour for some residents of Oakridge Mobile Home Park, a tight-knit community of manufactured homes that became a flattened field of blackened trees and twisted metal.</p><p>The fire at the park was one of three in Southern California that have destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and apartments and burned 42,000 acres, or 65 square miles, forcing thousands to flee.</p> |
| Category: | Weather News |
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| Date Added: | November 18, 2008 06:52:58 PM |
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