Wildfires 2007

Missing Home: Questions for Marissa Morrison

What it's like for one 14-year-old girl living in a hotel after the fires claimed her home.

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Rebuilding in a Different Real Estate Market

By KELLY BENNETT Voice Staff Writer

Unlike four years ago, when San Diego contractors and homebuilders diverted resources to help rebuild destroyed homes, they're now constructing entire business plans around the effort.

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As San Diego Grew, Firefighting Didn't Keep Up

By ROB DAVIS Voice Staff Writer

Since the 1980s, the city's explosive growth has pushed its boundaries into more fire-prone areas. But its investment in fire resources didn't follow suit.

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Twice Bitten, Native Species Now Jeopardized

By ROB DAVIS Voice Staff Writer

The wildfires burned a huge swath of land that went up in flames just four years ago. Researchers worry that native species may never recover.

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Cops Blocked Media During Fires, Report Says

By WILL CARLESS Voice Staff Writer

The Police Department says it has the right to protect the privacy of those at recovery centers.

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Houses Burn, Neighbors Boost Rents

By KELLY BENNETT Voice Staff Writer

While thousands of San Diegans were staying with friends or in shelters last week to escape the devastating fires, some landlords raised the lease prices on their rentable properties.

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The Fire Detectives

By WILL CARLESS Voice Staff Writer

How fire investigators will figure out what caused San Diego's devastating wildfires.

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To Judge Feds' Help in Fires, Experts Say Wait and See

By EVAN McLAUGHLIN Voice Staff Writer

The fires also spurred renewed calls to expand federal duties to protect the American West by purchasing costly firefighting equipment or intervening in the planning of local development.

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Flight, Not Fight, Was the Key Strategy for Handling the Flames

By EVAN McLAUGHLIN Voice Staff Writer

That the region's fate remains at the whims of wind speeds and the humidity index more than the staffing or equipment appears to mark a new reality in local debates over fire readiness.

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San Diego Gets Googled

By WILL CARLESS Voice Staff Writer

Why two smooth-talking Google whiz kids are staked out in an office in the county’s Emergency Operation’s Center and what it could mean for the future of wildfires.

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In Barona, Some Stay, Some Go

By EMILY ALPERT Voice Staff Writer

A town hit hard by the Cedar Fire grapples with whether to evacuate when fire strikes again -- and many opt to remain.

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Faces of the Fires

By WILL CARLESS Voice Staff Writer

The continuing wildfires have rustled up a colorful collection of personalities.

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The Battle for One House

By ROB DAVIS Voice Staff Writer

With the Harris Fire doubling back, four firefighters from Engine 58 make a stand.
SLIDE SHOW: The East County Inferno

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Live From Rancho Bernardo

By KELLY BENNETT Voice Staff Writer

The shy inland North County community adjusted Tuesday to devastation, and an unusual feeling: Being in the center of the news.

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Emergency En Español

By EMILY ALPERT Voice Staff Writer

Criticized for their coverage of the Cedar Fire, Spanish-language stations were slow to get going Sunday, but picked up coverage as the fires raged.

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The Exodus

By WILL CARLESS and KELLY BENNETT Voice Staff Writers

Raging wildfires exiled a quarter of a million San Diegans to shelters and columns of smoke marched their way to the coast, dividing the county.

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The Never-Ending Shift

By ROB DAVIS Voice Staff Writer

With no relief in sight, the East County inferno forced local firefighters into shifts that stretched to days.

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School Decisions Under Fire

By EMILY ALPERT Voice Staff Writer

Parents, teachers and principals question superintendent's decision to keep San Diego schools open.

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The Nightmare Returns

By WILL CARLESS Voice Staff Writer

Stoked by hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, two wildfires feed off San Diego's bone-dry countryside. Officials warn of another Cedar Fire.

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Fire crews work on a controlled burn in Escondido. Photo: Sam Hodgson


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