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  • Randy Abay with Cal Fire watches the Thomas Fire crest the hillside in the City of Santa Paula, Calif. at 5:15 Tuesday morning on Montclair Drive.  Just hours old and expanding rapidly, the fire would become the largest on record for the State of California burning 440 square miles, destroying 1,063 structures and taking two lives including one firefighter.
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  • Olivia Jacobson, 16, stands distraught outside her family home on the 3100 block of Island View Drive in Ventura, Calif., ablaze from the Thomas Fire on Tuesday, December 5, 2017.
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  • At 3:00 Tuesday morning, December 5, 2017, the Thomas Fire spreads over the landscape along Santa Paula Road gaining momentum in every direction in Ventura County, Calif.  High winds drove flames 14 miles from its Santa Paula origin to Ventura overnight. The blaze would become the state’s largest fire on record burning 440 square miles, destroying 1,063 structures and taking two lives including one firefighter.
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  • Dawn is deep gray with ash and smoke while flames lick one hilltop after another along Foothill Road in Santa Paula, Calif on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 in the fledgling Thomas Fire. The fire would become the largest on record for the State of California burning 440 square miles, destroying 1,063 structures and taking two lives including one firefighter.
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  • Matthew McKurits drives away in his U.S. Forest Service truck from a meeting ground parallel to Hwy. #150 in unincorporated Ventura County, Calif. where the Thomas Fire closes in during the early afternoon on Thursday, December 7, 2017.
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  • Matthew McKurits (center) with the U.S. Forest Service, instructs a crew with Firestorm Wildland Suppression, Inc., a private firefighting company, on where to start backfires against the surrounding Thomas Fire in the early afternoon on Thursday, December 7, 2017. Photo by Karen Quincy Loberg
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  • Farm raised turkeys behave nervously as the Thomas Fire comes down the mountain closer to the property that appears to have been evacuated along Hwy. #150 unincorporated Ventura County, Calif on Thursday, December 7, 2017.
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  • Zack Miller (left) and Kenneth Mitchell, both with Firestorm Wildland Suppression, Inc., keep an eye on the Thomas Fire waiting for the fire line to drop lower to start their back burn off Hwy. #150 in unincorporated Ventura County, Calif on Thursday, December 7, 2017.
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  • Firefighters work into another night  Thursday, December 7, 2018 on a citrus ranch along highway #150 as the Thomas Fire moves through unincorporated Ventura County northwest of Ojai.
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  • Trees and chaparral smolder in the path of the Thomas Fire sweeping through a canyon on the Maricopa Hwy. #33 in unincorporated Ventura County, Calif. on Friday night, December 8, 2017.
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  • Firefighting helicopters fly by Pierce Brothers of Santa Paula Cemetery loaded with water as vultures circle below, right, while the Thomas Fire remains out of control in Santa Paula, Calif. and beyond on Thursday, December 7, 2017.
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  • A captain from the City of Albany Fire Dept. (name declined) puts out spot fires on Friday, December 8, 2017 caused by the Thomas Fire hours before at a home destroyed by the deadly landslide in 2005 in La Conchita, Calif.
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  • Trees and chaparral ignite in the path of the Thomas Fire on the Maricopa Hwy. #33 in unincorporated Ventura County, Calif. on Friday night, December 8, 2017.
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  • Tones of red dominate the night as the Thomas Fire sweeps through the Maricopa Hwy. #33 in unincorporated Ventura County, Calif. on Friday night, December 8, 2017.
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  • Firefighter Alex Hicks (left) and Captain Jordan Morris, both with the City of Fullerton Fire Dept., douse flames destroying the Jacobson home on the 3100 block of Island View Drive in Ventura, Calif. on Tuesday, December 5, 2017.  The home was one of several burned overnight by the Thomas Fire.
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  • Nick La Monica, a firefighter with the Santa Maria Fire Dept., is weary from battling the Thomas Fire in Ventura, Calif. on Tuesday morning.
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  • Grace Combs (from left) 15, Muriel Rowley, 15, Olivia Jacobson, 16, her sister Emma Jacobson, 19, Anna Niebergall, 20, and her sister Sally Niebergall, 16, all of Ventura, console each other as the Jacobson family home burns to the ground in the path of the Thompson Fire on the 3100 block of Island View Drive in Ventura, Calif. on Tuesday, December 5, 2017.
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