Word: scrublands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greener Mansions. Late one night last week the winds, whipping across the tinder-dry, drought-grey brush and scrubland of the foothills, picked up a flicker of fire on the slope called Zuma Ridge. Instantly, a mass of blood-red flames burst forth like an explosion. Soon, the winds pushed the flames down the ridge toward the highway and the sea, then fanned the flames north and east, chewing up everything that lay in their path...