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Raging wildfire spares homes; People in 15 homes on Cartagena Street in Deep Creek leave; the wildfire splits in two and avoids the homes.(A SECTION)

Sarasota Herald Tribune

| June 07, 2000 | Valine, Kevin | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Dale Bagby rushed inside his Deep Creek home to pack Tuesday as a brush fire reignited near his back yard. He grabbed the one essential -- his Dell computer, which has the family budget and his church sermons on it.

Then his wife called: Don't forget the wedding album and other photos.

"I just said, 'Yes, I'll get the album,' " Bagby said. "I don't think I would have really worried about that stuff, just my computer that has all my sermons on it so I'd have something to say."

Bagby, who's an elder with the Jehovah's Witnesses, didn't have to leave his home of seven years. Firefighters knocked down the fast-moving brush fire that burned 75 acres of …

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