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- <title>
- Sep. 03, 1990: American Notes:California
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 53
- American Notes
- CALIFORNIA
- Eye in the Sky
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Southern California has long been a place where new ideas
- take wing, sometimes literally. The latest example: using hang
- gliders to spot forest fires before they burn out of control.
- </p>
- <p> The volunteer patrols will be conducted by three
- hang-gliding clubs in the Angeles National Forest, where
- firebugs have started at least 20 blazes this year. The
- radio-equipped gliders will alert rangers if they see an
- arsonist at work. Says U.S. Forest Service spokesman Jim Stump:
- "Every little bit the hang gliders can do helps."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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