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Famed resort Catalina threatened by flames
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by Actual News Geezer | May 10, 2007 at 02:06 pm
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At least 160 firefighters, aided by four water-dropping helicopters and
three retardant-dropping air tankers, battled flames through most of
Thursday. The helicopters flew into the night and were expected to be
back in the air at dawn Friday
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A 100-acre brush fire on Catalina Island was moving toward the city of Avalon this afternoon as authorities were preparing to ferry additional fire crews to the island using a military ship.The Los Angeles County Fire Department said the fire was reported around 12:30 p.m. about five miles east of the island's airport. The fire was moving east and through light to medium toward the city of Avalon, but only a communications tower is currently being threatened, said spokesman Mike Brown.
Officials said the fire was being held back from populated areas by a dirt road that runs around the perimeter of Avalon.
"The good news is that it is being held by one of our dirt roads," said Assistant City Manager Pete Woolson.
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at 05:28 on May 11th, 2007
Actual News Guy, thanks for getting this story out so quickly. It will now show up on the home page for four hours. If new developments justify it, I'll renew this flag for another cycle.
at 10:46 on May 11th, 2007
Hey, Actual News Guy, thanks for getting this up so quickly... I'm removing the urgent flag for this story for the time being. If there are any new developments, please let me know.