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    The Basin Complex Fire was a massive wildfire near Big Sur that ignited on June 21, 2008, and was the result of a lightning strike. It eventually grew...
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    CZU Lightning Complex fires were wildfires that burned in Northern California starting in August 2020. The fire complex consisted of fires in San Mateo...
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    Marble Cone Fire in 1977, the Rat Creek Gorda Complex Fire in 1985, the Kirk Complex Fire in 1999, the Basin Complex Fire in 2008, the Pfeiffer Fire in December...
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    forests. One of Adams's earliest memories was watching the smoke from the fires caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Then four years old, Adams...
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    Mining District USS Macon USS Ventura Marble Cone Fire Basin Complex Fire Soberanes Fire Dolan Fire Flora and fauna ' lousewort Santa Lucia fir Yadon's...
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    Time fired him for insubordination. Later that year, he worked as a reporter for The Middletown Daily Record in Middletown, New York. He was fired from...
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    Mining District USS Macon USS Ventura Marble Cone Fire Basin Complex Fire Soberanes Fire Dolan Fire Flora and fauna ' lousewort Santa Lucia fir Yadon's...
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    Alps Complex Fire, also called the Iron/Alps Complex Fire, was a large wildfire complex in Trinity County, California, United States. The complex comprised...
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  • Basin Fire was a wildfire complex which began burning southwest of Thermopolis and north of Riverton in Hot Springs County, Wyoming. The fire complex...
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    Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade to recognize the ranch's contribution of resources and personnel in fighting the Basin Complex Fire in 2008. The ranch...
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    reintroduction of captive-bred condors into the wild has become a multi-step and complex process, fraught with the need to periodically recapture the birds to test...
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  • Mining District USS Macon USS Ventura Marble Cone Fire Basin Complex Fire Soberanes Fire Dolan Fire Flora and fauna ' lousewort Santa Lucia fir Yadon's...
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    Mining District USS Macon USS Ventura Marble Cone Fire Basin Complex Fire Soberanes Fire Dolan Fire Flora and fauna ' lousewort Santa Lucia fir Yadon's...
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    to see what had happened. When the thing hit the water, the gas caught on fire and burned almost all night on the surface of the water after the bulk of...
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    priest who founded the California Missions in the 18th century. There is a fire lookout, with a tower and building, near the peak that was constructed around...
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    Cone Fire burned 178,000 acres (720 km2) within the Ventana Wilderness and other portions of the Los Padres Forest. In June and July, 2008, the Basin Complex...
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    forced to close the restaurant during fires in 1983 and again for three months in 1998. In 2008, the Basin Complex Fire closed Highway 1, costing the restaurant...
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  • The Salmon August Complex Fire was a large complex wildfire in Northern California that originally consisted of 11 separate wildfires, and charred 65,888...
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    Mining District USS Macon USS Ventura Marble Cone Fire Basin Complex Fire Soberanes Fire Dolan Fire Flora and fauna ' lousewort Santa Lucia fir Yadon's...
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    The Dolan Fire was a large wildfire that burned in the Big Sur region and other parts of the Santa Lucia mountain range in Monterey County, California...
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    The 2021 KNP Complex Fire was a large wildfire in Sequoia National Park and the Sequoia National Forest in Central California's Tulare County. After lightning...
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    sharply up the Murray Grade to the top of Green Ridge and the Mid Coast Fire Brigade fire station and into the Rocky Creek watershed. It then climbs again up...
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    redwood groves and trail to Pfeiffer Falls. Mud slides caused by the Basin Complex fire necessitated rerouting the Pfeiffer Falls Trail, re-opened 13 years...
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    Range contain Mesozoic Franciscan and Salinian Block rocks. The Franciscan complex is composed of greywacke sandstone and greenstone, with serpentinite bodies...
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    Sur River Inn and Restaurant founded in 1934. In August 1972, the Molera Fire burned the hills above Big Sur. The slopes above the village rise abruptly...
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    Mining District USS Macon USS Ventura Marble Cone Fire Basin Complex Fire Soberanes Fire Dolan Fire Flora and fauna ' lousewort Santa Lucia fir Yadon's...
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