Last week a thousand homes and commercial buildings were destroyed in California by the Valley fire in Lake County and it is still not contained. The Rough fire in Fresno County burned 160 homes and threatens Sequoia groves 3,000 years old. Mark Ghilarducci, director of the state Office of Emergency Services says he has not seen anything like this in 30 years. Five years into the drought, fuels are so dry… (please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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This is part of the September 18, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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