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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
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5:30 p.m.: During a com-
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Marvin Rynearson is in bed
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hours on his porch, watch-
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4:42 a.m.: The operations
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Smoke blanketed Prairie City Saturday as fire
approached. Firefighters were able to stop it 1.5
miles from town.
Eagle photos/Sean Ellis
An information board was set up to update residents and the media during the
evacuation in Prairie City Saturday.
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blaze that embers are hitting
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city residents and alert them
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4 p.m.: Rynearson and
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