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'A Canyon Trilogy: Life Before, During and After the Cedar Fire': New Novel Recounts the 2003 California Wildfires That Destroyed the Wilderness, but Not the Will to Survive

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 9th, 2008

The October 2003 Southern California wildfires claimed 800,000 acres of land, 3,657 homes and killed 22 people. In San Diego County, the Cedar Fire became the largest fire on record in state history. Author Chi Varnado details these accounts and how her family barely escaped in "A CANYON TRILOGY: Life Before, During and After the Cedar Fire" (published by AuthorHouse -- http://www.authorhouse.com/).

Varnado illustrates a rural, connected way of life that is rapidly disappearing in our society. On the heels of her mother's struggle with a brain tumor, Chi's family and community were hit by the Cedar Fire. The extended family lost five homes in the valley which cradled...

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