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Internet message boards, endless e-mails help keep fire victims connected
Sac Bee ^
| 11/2/03
| Ron Harris - AP
Posted on 11/03/2003 8:35:26 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 6:00:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - As wildfires grew to epic proportions along Southern California's mountain crests, so did a network of displaced residents hungry for detailed information about their homes, friends and family.
Many turned to the tools of technology and found community through Internet message boards, e-mails and online emergency scanner traffic.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: connected; endlessemails; firevictims; internet; messageboards
To: lainie; First_Salute
FYI .. Please pass on or we can add it to today's thread or the last one. Thanks. :-)
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11/03/2003 8:36:31 AM PST
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NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
To: NormsRevenge
Bump, Bttt, as a bookmark
To: NormsRevenge
Hey cool :-)
Yep, that's what we all were doing -- live365 and rimoftheworld.net. Very interesting.
Was there a fire thread today? It didn't look like it. I didn't start one because the interest is waning; fires are out for the most part.
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11/03/2003 5:42:07 PM PST
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lainie
To: lainie; First_Salute
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11/03/2003 5:55:25 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi)
To: First_Salute
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11/03/2003 6:35:10 PM PST
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First_Salute
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