Calif. faces longer, tough wildfire season

Fundraising efforts are underway to rebuild the Al Bahr Shriners Camp in the Laguna Mountains after it was destroyed by a fire last month. It will take more than $1 million to replace more than 100 buildings, including the camp’s 87-year-old lodge, dining hall and kitchen, were destroyed in the blaze.

“Everyone lost a lot,” former Shriner potentate Donald Wierman told U-T San Diego. “If not material things they’ve lost memories. Generations have been going to that place.”

An air tanker drops fire retardant on a hot spot as …

Taxin reported from Santa Ana. Associated Press writer John Antczak in Los Angeles and Julie Watson in Cabazon contributed to this report.

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