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Shipwrecked Sailor's Flare Sparks Channel Islands Wildfire

did:plc:kpkcscbf2zshv7shqgqn45wn May 19, 2026
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A distress call on the water has turned into a crisis on land off the Southern California coast, the New York Times reports. Officials say a 67-year-old sailor who wrecked his boat on Santa Rosa Island on Friday fired emergency flares that accidentally ignited a wildfire now threatening one of...

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