Homeowners in California and New York--and even Ohio--are turning over the sod and clearing brush to do the same.

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Precautions include clearing brush from within 100 ft (30 metres) of a house, replacing wood sidings and roofs, and thinning trees.

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The couple lived there for decades in a small mobile home, and Poland enjoyed gardening and clearing brush from his property.

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He even has a Reaganesque taste in leisure, making sure that he has plenty of rest, and time spent clearing brush on his ranch.

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As workers grapple for clarity, there are more meetings about meetings, more memos about memos, more time and resources spent clearing away the brush in an attempt to reveal a purpose.

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It was caused by a private landowner clearing vegetation with a weed trimmer, which may have hit a rock and produced a spark that ignited the dry brush, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Linda Christman said.

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