Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Twain Harte Fire chief Todd McNeal describes how water tender 721, or any engine, can connect to the raw water draft point at Shady Brooke reservoir.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat TWIST (The Women’s Improvement Society of Tuolumne) painted the base of nearly 180 trees throughout Tuolumne in an effort to better care for the 100 year old sycamore trees, planted after a fire in 1918.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat The Westside Memorial Park in Tuolumne is surrounded on all for sides by sycamore trees. The Tuolumne Park and Recreation District paints the trunks of the trees around the park to help ward off insects. TWIST (The Women’s Improvement Society of Tuolumne) painted the base of nearly 180 trees throughout Tuolumne in an effort to better care for the 100 year old sycamore trees, planted after a fire in 1918.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat The Tuolumne Veteran's Memorial Hall in Tuolumne is surrounded by sycamore trees planted in 1918 after a fire burned through Tuolumne.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat TWIST (The Women’s Improvement Society of Tuolumne) painted the base of nearly 180 trees throughout Tuolumne in an effort to better care for the 100 year old sycamore trees, planted after a fire in 1918.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat Watching the fire works Friday night from the Mother Lode Fair midway are Sonora residents, from left, Julian Calabrese, 5, Jaime Cardoza, and Christopher Bangham.
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File Photo / Union Democrat Columbia docents fire their muskets at the start of the Glorious Fourth of July Celebration in Columbia State Historic Park.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat A chainsaw carving of a bear out of an old stump survived the 2018 fire.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat The rock wall of the root cellar is all that is left of the historic Dardanelle Resort original store and an old gas pump still stands after a fire destroyed most of the resort last year.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat The rock wall of the root cellar is all that is left of the historic Dardanelle Resort original store and an old gas pump still stands after a fire destroyed most of the resort last year.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat The horseshoe pits at the Dardanelle Resort were not burned in 2018 the fire.
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Maggie Beck / Union Democrat The Dardanelle motel survived the 2018 fire. It was built to house the cast of For Whom the Bell Tolls as they filmed on the Sonora Pass said owner Jim Lewis.
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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 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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