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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Tom Peterson / The Bulletin
May 12, 2001
LA PINE " Huge plumes of smoke billowed into the sky above a rural neighborhood near La Pine on Friday afternoon while hundreds of residents packed personal items and animals as they were evacuated from their homes.
The fire, fed by bitterbrush, grass and lodgepole pine trees, stormed....