August 30, 1990 El Portal, California --Savage Fire – Fulton Hotshots get ready to hike off at night to cut a fire break. The Savage Fire was 1,000 acres. After the Arch Rock and Steamboat Fires earlier in the month, CDF and US Forest Service wasted no time in stopping the fire. The fire started in the bottom of the Merced River Canyon near the old Savage Trading Post, then ran 1,700 feet up to Ferguson Ridge burning 550 acres of the Sierra National Forest.
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