The Tahoe Douglas Fire Department officials attempted to save her but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Jimmie Hensley, the police detective, and Douglas Fogg, the assistant fire chief, both of whom investigated the fire, told me recently that they had never believed that the fridge was part of the arson plot.

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Among the dead were brothers Douglas and Robert Snokhous, West High School graduates who volunteered together for the town's fire department for more than 13 years.

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In 2002 a fire in Oregon's Six Rivers and Siskiyou national forests scorched 500, 000 acres of Douglas fir and ponderosa pine.

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The Douglas fir, which produces more seeds than the Ponderosa pine but is much less tolerant of drought or fire, did especially well.

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