| In late October 2003 the state of
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| | incurred by local residences and the
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| California was slammed with the worst
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| | tremendous losses to local wildlife
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| wildfire that it had experienced to that
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| | resulted in a push by the United States
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| date. Twenty people where killed, and
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| | federal government to pass the "Healthy
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| damage to local communities and
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| | Forests" bill which allocated seven
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| infrastructure was extensive.
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| | hundred and sixty million dollars to the
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| The wild fire extended from the Mexican
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| | urban interface between urban cities and
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| boarder north to the suburbs of Los
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| | forest areas.
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| Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of acres
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| | The economic impact of this wildfire was
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| of forest where destroyed. Local
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| | catastrophic. One and a quarter to two
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| vegetation and animal life suffered very
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| | billion dollars in damages resulted from
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| large losses and many communities where
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| | the fire, making it the most costly
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| effected by the disaster. Thousands of
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| | wildfire in American history. Losses to
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| different species where decimated by the
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| | businesses and local municipalities
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| fire. It is expected that certain of the
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| | amounted to millions of dollars in lost
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| larger species like elk, and deer, may
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| | revenues, not to mention the cost of
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| take several years to repopulate. Even
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| | replacing or restoring lost information,
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| the local salmon stock feeding in the
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| | and resulted in hardship for many local
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| streams running through the burning
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| | area residents. The logging industry, of
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| acreage suffered losses from the fire.
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| | course, took a major financial hit.
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| Damage to the area was devastating. 20
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| | Not all natural disasters kill thousands
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| people died including one of the fire
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| | of people, yet most will spread their
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| fighters. Two thousand seven hundred
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| | effects over huge areas and cause massive
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| homes and buildings where destroyed and
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| | damage to our fragile and over-used
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| many businesses had to close. This
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| | infrastructure. Telephone lines and
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| wildfire was to become the most expensive
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| | utilities like electricity, water and
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| fire to ever hit the United States.
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| | even sewage are easily interrupted.
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| Damage to phone lines, and local
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| | Businesses are not able to operate
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| utilities caused major outages. People
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| | without these simple services. Lost data
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| were displaced from their homes and many
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| | means lost revenues. Even something as
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| had to leave the state to find
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| | simple as a forest fire can have a huge
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| accommodation elsewhere during the
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| | social and economic influence on our
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| clean-up period.
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| | lives. In this case it appears the best
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| The social impact of this wild fire was a
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| | offense is a great defense. Always be
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| bit unexpected. The personal losses
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| | prepared.
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