In the fierce heat of summer, the real threat to Trotter would be fire, not a wicked government cabal. The steep slopes behind his property, as well as half the narrow valley both up-canyon and down-canyon, bristled with wild brush that, by late
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Now, of course, the steep slopes were so supersaturated with rain [420] that the risk was a mud slide. In this...
