Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, June 8 and it’ll be mostly sunny with a high of 67. After winds yesterday, Cal Fire crews will spend the day mopping up the dredges of the now-contained 11.75 acre Sandy Fire — a flare-up of the CZU lightning complex fire — in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park. While […]
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