Remembering the Cedar Fire ten years later

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Shortly after I began writing about wildland fires five years ago, I heard about the Cedar Fire which burned something like 280,000 acres +/- near San Diego. I believe that it still is the largest fire in California history. October, 2013 marks ten years since this fire. Fifteen people died and over 2,200 homes were destroyed in this Santa Anna wind driven fire. To read more about this fire see this article from the Ramona Patch (and another link to the video that I embedded above).

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Added on Oct. 22, 2013:

CAL FIRE incident info on Cedar Fire (last updated Nov. 5 2003
The 2003 San Diego County Fire Siege: Fire Safety Review (pdf file)
Wikipedia article on Cedar Fire
2003 San Diego Fire Facts from San Diego State University (with links)