Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Firefighters and civilians work to extinguish a vegetation fire off Mono Way at Hillsdale Drive Monday afternoon.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Firefighters extinguish a small grass fire off Highway 108 near the Juvenile Detention Center Monday afternoon.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Firefighters and civilians work to extinguish a vegetation fire off Mono Way at Hillsdale Drive Monday afternoon.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Dave Cowden, of Sonora, uses a hose to help stop the growth of a fire along Mono Way at Hillsdale Drive Monday morning.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A CalFire firefighter uses a hose to extinguish a vegetation fire off Mono Way at Hillsdale Drive Monday afternoon.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Firefighters and civilians work to extinguish a vegetation fire off Mono Way at Hillsdale Drive Monday afternoon.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Firefighters work to extinguish a vegetation fire off Mono Way at Hillsdale Drive Monday afternoon.
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A security specialist hired by the Gibbs Ranch Villas homeowners association gestures Friday to a resident who escaped a fast-moving fire Thursday that destroyed four condo units and damaged two others, displacing 20 people, in a gated community at the end of a cul-de-sac on a hilltop west of brush-carpeted Dragoon Gulch. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Extensive fire damage is evident Friday at Gibbs Ranch Villas, where a fast-moving blaze destroyed four condo units Thursday and damaged two others in a gated community at the end of a cul-de-sac on a hilltop west of brush-carpeted Dragoon Gulch. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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This is one of the second-story condo units that was gutted by fire Thursday in Gibbs Ranch Villas, a gated community at the end of a cul-de-sac on a hilltop west of brush-carpeted Dragoon Gulch. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Detail of a California Public Utilities Commission map showing high fire threat areas in Tuolumne County, on display at a Pacific Gas and Electric community wildfire safety open house in East Sonora on Wednesday night. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat Visitors peer through smoke from the Ferguson Fire into Yosemite Valley from Big Oak Flat Road inside Yosemite National Park at 9:35 a.m. Jul 24, 2018.
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People walk beneath a canopy of fire-adaptive manzanita and other chaparral-mix plants before 10:30 a.m. Saturday on Dragoon Gulch Trail. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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A chef checks his pizza's progress in his mobile wood-fired stove on Theall Street before 1 p.m. last Saturday in Sonora. (Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat)
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Alex MacLean / Union Democrat (From right to left) Josh White, chief of the Cal Fire Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit, Liz Peterson, coordinator of the county Office of Emergency Services, and county Undersheriff Neil Evans gave a presentation to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday about the status of an initiative to help communities improve fire safety and preparedness.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat The Berkeley Tuolumne Camp located on Hardin Flat Road off Highway 120 was burned during the Rim Fire but plans are in the works to rebuild a much bigger camp next year.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Valley Fire plays music from the Black Oak Casino Concert Series float.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Cal Fire/Tuolumne County Fire
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Cal Fire/Tuolumne County Fire
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Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat Sonora City firefighters make sure a smoldering cart and car fire are out Wednesday afternoon outside Staples in Crossroads Shopping Center in Sonora.
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Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat Sonora City firefighters make sure a smoldering cart and car fire are out Wednesday afternoon outside Staples in Crossroads Shopping Center in Sonora.
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Guy McCarthy / Union Democrat Sonora City firefighters make sure a smoldering cart and car fire are out Wednesday afternoon outside Staples in Crossroads Shopping Center in Sonora.
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Giuseppe Ricapito / Union Democrat Wesley Dye, 66, grew up in a home on Apple Colony Road in Tuolumne that was destroyed by fire Thursday morning.
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Giuseppe Ricapito / Union Democrat The fire was believed to have started in the front bedroom of the house.
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