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How the Fire Grew

Maps Tell the Story of the Gap Fire


Thursday, July 10, 2008
By Indy Staff
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What started as a tiny brushfire on July 1 took just two days to grow into the number one firefighting priority for all of California, where more than 1,400 fires have already been burning early this summer.

These maps, based on information provided by the responding firefighting teams, show the dangerously explosive day-by-day growth of this fire, point out a few important geographic areas and key battles of the fire fight, and give an overall assessment of just how much of the Santa Ynez Mountains have been scorched.

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Are these thumbnails supposed to be click-able? I'd love to see them. You rock Indy.

pope (Paul Costales)
July 10, 2008 at 8:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)

We will have a bigger version up shortly.

-Mike
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mike (web content manager)
July 10, 2008 at 2:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)

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