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It Is No Accident

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by Viktoria Vidali on September 14, 2009

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Bonny Doon has already been in the international spotlight twice this year: first, because it lay along the route of the Amgen Tour of California, the largest cycling event in America – a 750-mile course from Sacramento to Escondido (February 14-22); and second, because of the infamous Lockheed Fire that started on August 12th causing the evacuation of 2,400 people and burning  7,817 acres of wilderness (with no one’s home being lost, thanks to our highly skilled and dedicated first responders).
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Wake Up Call

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by Viktoria Vidali on August 18, 2009

in General,Weekly Post

The wake up call came at 6 am, Thursday, August 13th: a voluntary evacuation of Bonny Doon necessitated by the approaching Lockheed Fire. My first sleep-laden reaction was to deny that the fire would spread. Knowing that new first-responder protocols had been put into place since the Martin Fire here in June 2008, we decided to take this early warning to heart and commence packing in a focused but unhurried manner.
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