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Key Post-Thomas Fire Cleanup Effort Completed In Ventura County

A Ventura County home destroyed bu the Thomas Fire December 4th

Officials with a state program say they’ve completed cleanup of debris from more than 600 properties in Ventura County impacted by the Thomas Fire.

CalRecycle officials say they’ve removed more than 270,000 tons of debris from just over 670 properties.

The state managed program began in mid-January, and was completed last week.

The nearly 282,000 acre blaze was the largest in the state’s modern history, directly leading to two deaths and destroying more than a thousand structures.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.