Word: cahuilla
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...suddenly, it was as if both man and nature were possessed throughout Southern California. A copycat arsonist is suspected of igniting a flame near Irvine in Orange County. Downed power wires set off the chaparral in Yucaipa and Cahuilla. Unknown causes started conflagrations in Riverside County and outside San Diego. By nightfall on Wednesday, it was clear that the region was being visited by another of its many afflictions, this one nearly biblical in scope. Within two days, 100 fires raged through the state, 13 of them major. Flames shot 70 ft. in the air and made 50-ft. leaps...
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