Rick Modrell of Modrell Transportation in Sonora looks over scrap metal and concrete to be salvaged from ruins of the iconic Dardanelle Resort that burned two months ago in the Donnell Fire, for recycling in Modesto and Jamestown. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Mike Lovett, a resident of Twain Harte with Lovett Excavating, looks over ruins of Dardanelle Resort on Friday morning, two months since the Donnell Fire blew up and consumed the historic recreation hub beloved by generations going back to the 1920s. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Shattered plates lay scattered Friday in debris of the Dardanelle Resort main building that burned in Donnell Fire in early August. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Adam Huffer, a Lovett Excavating worker, walks toward 6-ton and 20-ton loaders and a debris transport rig Friday morning at Dardanelle Resort, the historic mountain recreation hub that burned in early August in the Donnell Fire. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Dried out mementos remain on the Dardanelle Resort sign that greets eastbound motorists heading to the high Central Sierra on Highway 108. The resort's oldest primary building burned to the ground in the Donnell Fire in early August. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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A Radio Flyer wagon with three of its four tires burned off the wheels sits Friday with a cargo of neglected socket wrenches and other hand tools near where the Dardanelle Resort main building burned in the Donnell Fire two months ago. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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A porcelain-coated cast iron bath tub is in a pile of metal debris to be salvaged from the devastating Donnell Fire that destroyed the Dardanelle Resort main lodge dating to the 1920s. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Old gas pumps are still standing at Dardanelle Resort, where the iconic main store and restaurant building burned to the ground two months ago in the Donnell Fire. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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The burned hulk of a snowcat vehicle designed to move over deep snowpack sits Friday near where the Dardanelle Resort main building burned in the Donnell Fire in early August. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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The new Dardanelle Resort owners, Laurelin and Jim Lewis, who closed escrow on the place about two months before the Donnell Fire destroyed most of their place, are grateful this part of their property was not consumed by the blaze. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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The 57-square-mile Donnell Fire burn zone is estimated to be 90 percent contained, Diana Fredlund with Stanislaus National Forest public affairs said Friday. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Hard rains on the Donnell Fire burn will unleash tons of burned debris, ash and rock, and they could mobilize tons of more material from severely burned steeps like this on the north side of the Middle Fork Stanislaus River. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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A couple from Twain Harte with leashed dogs look out from above the Donnell Vista deck at rock formations called The Dardenelles, areas burned recently by the Donnell Fire, and areas burned last year in the McCormick Fire. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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White patches of mist stand out against a black forest of standing dead trees killed in the 2013 Rim Fire, Wednesday near the Big Oak Flat exit from Yosemite National Park. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Sonora Fire Museum volunteer Mike Mandell, talks to Summerville Elementary School fourth-graders about the history of the Sonora Fire Department.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Historical Society member Sherrin Grout (right) looks through a booklet of photos with Summerville Elementary School fourth-grader Sanden Jones, 9, as she tells them the history of the Sonora City hall being the Sonora Fire Department.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Sonora Fire Museum volunteer Jim Lillie (back left) and Sonora Historical Society member Sherrin Grout (back right), instruct Summerville Elementary School fourth-graders, from left, Peyton Armstrong, 9, and twins Max and Adam DeAnda, 9, of the proper way to use the hand pump.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Sonora Fire Museum volunteer Jim Lillie instructs Summerville Elementary School fourth-graders on the history of the Sonora Fire Department and the hand pump.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Summerville Elementary School fourth-graders Mckenzie Munsel, 9 (left), and Cherish Questo, 9 (right), listen intently as Sonora Fire Museum volunteer Mike Mandell educates them on the history of the Sonora Fire Department.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Sonora Fire Museum volunteer Jim Lillie educates Summerville Elementary School fourth-graders in the history of the hand pump.
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Remnants of the early August Donnell Fire. Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A water line winds up a hill from a fire truck past two homeless camps off Stockton Road Thursday evening .
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Firefighters spray water and cut a fire-line around a vegetation fire off Stockton Road Thursday evening near the homeless camps off Stockton Road.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A fire hose winds past a wheel-less shopping cart filled with car parts, glass bottles and a couple plastic serving trays as firefighters put out a fire near the Stockton Road homeless camps Thursday evening.
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