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July 13, 2012
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Governor Brown directs additional firefighting resources to wildfires

California Governor Jerry Brown directed additional state resources deployed to assist in fighting wildfires burning throughout northern California.A highly trained CAL FIRE Incident Management Team is now coordinating the attack on the 1,157 acre "Robbers Fire" in Placer County. The wildfire is burning three miles northwest of the community of Foresthill and was only 10% contained as of Friday morning. Officials say 150 residences are threatened and 1,368 personnel are assigned to try and get the upper hand on the fire."We've had a brief reprieve from large fire activity the last two years," said Chief Ken Pimlott, director of CAL …

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