Among the pines in Pine Valley As someone who has primarily lived in suburbia, I find myself escaping to small-town USA when I am in need of a change in scenery. Most San Diegans head …
March 27, 2023
1970 Laguna fire - shot taken from Country Crest Drive, El Cajon. “We had trained for a fire coming down Kitchen Creek as much as you could train. But as far as training on anything like the Laguna Fire — no way."
Posted February 12, 1998
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San Diego fires: Campo Creek, Volcan Mountain, Hauser Canyon
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Leslie Ryland and the Reader
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Pine Valley girl recalls the 1970 Laguna fire
In the fall of 1970, California caught fire. Between September 25 and October 3 that year, the U. S. Forest Service recorded 16 fires that consumed over 528,000 acres statewide. From Humboldt County in the …
February 12, 1998