Crews keep flames away from ski area
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After a night of using torches to create a fire break nearly 1,000 feet wide, crews working on the 70-square-mile Castle Rock fire again kept flames from the Sun Valley ski area and the million-dollar homes that line the deep gulch below.
“It took all night, from sundown to sunset,” U.S. Forest Service spokesman David Olson said of the burnout work. “This is a very key holding point.”
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