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Cienega Prescribed Burn

2:30 pm Just spoke with the Unit Chief of BEU and he told me the planned acreage is 900 acres. 70% of the perimeter is burned. The fuels on the interior are sending up all this smoke. It is going  well.

Here is a photo by Greg Painter taken in Gonzales:

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Started this am around 11:30 am.

Taken by Nicola Swanson-Marengo from River Rd between Hwy 68 and Chualar.

Here is another one by Richard Smith in Prunedale

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Appointed appellate counsel for indigent defendants (retired.) I have lived in Big Sur since 1984, first on the north coast, and on the South Coast since 1989.

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