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Todays is : Friday, 09 January 2009

Written by George Gale
Monday, 02 June 2008
(Two unscheduled field fires over the weekend)…Both fires destroyed wheat fields. The first fire was started Friday. The field was on La Brucherie Road, South of El Centro. An 11 year old was taken into custody in connection with that fire. On Sunday, another wheat field caught fire near Imperial. County Fire officials say that fire was caused by a spark from machinery harvesting the field. Nobody was injured in either fire. Damage was estimated into the thousands of dollars.