By Melissa Pinion-Whitt
The Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians donated $10,000 to help the families of two Los Angeles County firefighters killed in the Station Fire.
Los Angeles County fire Capt. Tedmund Hall, of Oak Hills, and firefighter specialist Arnaldo Quinones, of Palmdale, died Sunday when their vehicle plunged 800 feet off a road into a steep [...]

Posted on September 4th, 2009 by hunwut
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Team from Sycuan tackles blazes with San Diego’s Copter 1
By Debbi Baker, Union-Tribune Staff Writer
OTAY MESA - When a brush fire rages in San Diego, one of the most important and least visible firefighting tools is an eight- to- 10-man crew that clears brush and cuts fire breaks on the front lines.
They are the Sycuan [...]

Posted on August 12th, 2009 by hunwut
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Regulations, cuts reshaped strategy
By Onell R. Soto, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
November 3, 2008
San Diego County’s landscape is meant to burn, though not necessarily in the way it has twice this decade when more than a half-million acres were blackened, thousands of homes were destroyed and 27 people died.
Before the Spanish arrived in the 1700s, Indians used [...]

Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by hunwut
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Only 9 percent of homes that were destroyed in blazes have been rebuilt
By Angela Lau, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
and Danielle Cervantes, STAFF DATA SPECIALIST
October 21, 2008
Mary Wagner and her family are among the lucky ones. Although they lost their home in Rancho Bernardo in the wildfires that started a year ago today, they navigated insurance claims [...]

Posted on October 21st, 2008 by hunwut
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Washed-out roads are getting rebuilt
By Onell R. Soto, STAFF WRITER
September 7, 2008
NORTH COUNTY - After the Poomacha fire burned through the La Jolla Indian reservation last October, the rains came and washed out dirt roads.
It was a mess, as soil no longer held in place by scrubs and trees flowed down mountainsides.

Posted on September 7th, 2008 by hunwut
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Tribe’s department has come a long way
By TOM PFINGSTEN - Staff Writer
PALA —- Anthony Ravago can still remember when the Pala Fire Department consisted of eight volunteers and a donated fire truck operating out of a trailer off Pala Mission Road.
But when the fire chief walks through the shiny halls of the $9 million fire [...]

Posted on September 6th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Onell R. Soto, STAFF WRITER
August 15, 2008
The La Jolla Indian band, one of the poorest tribes in San Diego County, has used volunteerism, timely planning, gifts from wealthy tribes and a bureaucracy-averse reservation government to jump ahead of many devastated communities in recovering from last fall’s wildfires.
“Light years” is how Fred Sanford, an [...]

Posted on August 15th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Jeff Barnard, ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 15, 2008
GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Indian tribes from the Klamath River canyon are worried that the U.S. Forest Service is violating some of their sacred lands by fighting a remote wilderness wildfire rather than letting it burn naturally.

The area is home to many prayer seats or vision-quest sites shared by [...]

Posted on August 15th, 2008 by hunwut
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SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
August 12, 2008
NORTH COUNTY: Two La Jolla tribal members were honored last week for their work in keeping the reservation water system running during the Poomacha fire in last October.
Brothers Ben and Tom Rodriguez were given the $4,000 Yoneo Ono Award by the Rural Community Assistance Corp. during a barbecue Thursday at the [...]

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by hunwut
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The Associated Press

LAKESIDE, Calif.—A wildfire in suburban San Diego has forced the evacuation of several homes and is headed toward the Barona Indian Reservation.

San Diego County officials say the fire began around 2:30 p.m. Friday in Lakeside and has burned about 100 acres. About 10 homes have been evacuated.

Posted on August 1st, 2008 by hunwut
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