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Archive Home > 2006 > July > 30 > More residents flee

More residents flee

As Black Crater Fire spreads, authorities evacuate Tollgate

By Christopher Stollar and Keith Chu / The Bulletin
July 30, 2006

SISTERS - An estimated 1,000 people evacuated their homes in the Tollgate neighborhood west of Sisters about 4 p.m. Saturday after the Black Crater Fire lept across trees and morphed into a 5,700-acre giant.

The small subdivision of more than 280 homes turned into a ghost town as the Deschutes....

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