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Old February 8th 15, 11:51 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
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Default Brush fire closes 395 near Mammoth

On 2/8/15 2:05 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
A fire started Friday morning near Sherwin Grade, the hill from Bishop to Mammoth, burned 7000 acres so far and 40+ buildings along the Old 395 alignment.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?...Q.kzTmU5XK-qJQ

http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents...cident_id=1073

That's going to be rough on those folks - 40 or so houses burned in a
town of only a few hundred, in a winter storm cycle. I hope they can
manage to find suitable shelter quick, near their desired habitat.
That's some nice country that'd be hard to duplicate elsewhere.
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