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A chimney is left standing after a home burned during the Station Fire are pictured in the Big Tujunga canyon area of Los Angeles
30 Aug 2009
Source: Reuters
 
A chimney is left standing after a home burned during the Station Fire are pictured in the Big Tujunga canyon area of Los Angeles, California August 30, 2009. The heat-driven fire nearly doubled in size overnight and has now burned 35,000 acres (14,000 hectares) of thick, bone-dry brush in the mountains above five towns, a 10-mile (16 km) stretch from La Crescenta to Pasadena, the California Fire Department said. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)
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