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Fires claim town as Cuyamaca is reduced to rubble
The Cuyamaca community near San Diego, with 145 homes on a hand drawn map, mostly burned away by the wildfires. Fire chief Carl Schweikert and residents recall the loss, with only 25 homes surviving and the landscape left charred and stripped of its trees and structures. The park headquarters and museum at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park were also destroyed or severely damaged.
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Cuyamaca
Calif
Jim McKenzie
San Diego
Los Angeles
California
Lake Cuyamaca
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park
Paradise
Willard Lepley
Carl Schweikert
Schweikert