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With Red Flag warnings and dry conditions giving cause for extra concern, volunteers and full-time firefighters from many agencies tackle a small (estimated at 3 acres) fire along SR-174 near Crown Point Friday morning, closing the highway to Bridgeport for a time. - Scott Hunter photo
by Scott Hunter
Local volunteers had at least 19 calls to emergencies last week, including four fires and 15 ambulance calls.
After 18 of those, the next one came in at 11 a.m. Sunday to put out another fire: a campfire (already banned) at Jones Bay on Banks Lake. They put it out.
That was after having left home almost 12 hours earlier to find a red glow near the airport in the middle of the night...
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