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Although I have lived in many California locales over the past 60-plus years, it was just a few weeks ago when, for the first time, I got a close look at the aftermath of a major wildfire. It was known as the Harris Fire which ravaged the countryside along the Mexican border east of Chula Vista. The Harris Fire caused several deaths and multi-million-dollar destruction to property, but it wasn't the worst of the wildfires that plagued a large part of Southern California only a few weeks ago. Another Tehachapi resident, Mark Kingsbury, of Bear Valley Springs, got a much closer look at the Harris Fire and what he saw makes him even more fearful of what could happen here. Kingsbury is a captain in the Kern County Fire Department, specializing in fuel management and prescribed fires. He is one of California's best-trained and experienced wildfire experts. Kingsbury was on the San Diego County firelines along with many other firefighters from a large part of the state who fought the...
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