Some measures, like a bulkhead that burned in a brush fire, were damaged or destroyed before Sandy.
Dollywood was the site of a separate brush fire Saturday night but park officials said that fire would not affect the season opening this weekend.
Washington's Taylor Bridge Fire began as a brush fire Monday afternoon.
Glendale Community College canceled its Friday night classes due to the brush fire near California Highways 134 and 2, the school said on its Twitter account.
The newspaper also said a brush fire flared near the crash scene, quoting witnesses who reported power outages that prompted a utility to send workers to the site.
In September, a twin-engine, two-seat AH-1W Cobra helicopter went down during training in a remote area of Camp Pendleton, killing two Marine pilots and igniting a brush fire that burned about 120 acres at the base north of San Diego.
The blaze destroyed two homes and two outbuildings, and damaged a cabin as it burned through 1, 500 acres of brush, fire officials said.
The film takes its name from the practice of setting a small fire to clear out nearby brush, allowing a fast-advancing forest fire to pass by harmlessly.
The area near an uphill incline is considered a collection point for fuel and ignition sources, and it's possible a piece of debris fell into the tinder-dry brush early Thursday and sparked the fire, Piranio said.
In Northern California, a fire in a remote area of brush and timber north of the town of Butte Meadows grew to more than 3 square miles, with 10 percent containment, state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant said.
The fire, which is fueled by dry brush and trees, was 30% contained Monday -- threatening structures and prompting an unspecified number of evacuations.
Fire could then be safely re-introduced to keep down the brush.
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He stumbled outside and began stamping at the brush until he understood that with its brick porch and pillars the big house would probably not catch fire.
Yet, in November of 1991, a team of fire investigators had inspected fifty houses in the hills of Oakland, California, which had been ravaged by brush fires.
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