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A more than 80-year-old home in western Sutter County is in ruins after a large fire ravaged it Sunday.

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Although the first fire crew arrived within four minutes and contained the flames in about an hour, the home's older style of construction — lath, plaster and wallboard — helped the flames to spread rapidly, Yager said. The entire second floor already was engulfed when firemen arrived, and flames weakened both floors and collapsed part of the roof.

CHP and Sutter County Sheriff's officers investigate a home invasion robbery that took place in the 8900 block of South Butte Road Friday morning in Sutter.

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On Thursday, deputies responded to a home on the 6000 block of Butte House Road at 2:14 p.m. A man living at the house reported that armed suspects forced their way into the house, ransacked it and left with an undisclosed amount of property. The man was not injured.

Valerie Carter, with her son Brent Hodkin, 3, goes through the charred remains of her parents' Auburn home on Monday.

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Miguel Vargas of Dobbins examines the remnants of his home on Lake Francis Road on Wednesday after the Yuba Fire tore through and destroyed everything in the house.

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He made it to a point about 100 feet above his home on Lake Francis Road, where a CHP officer stopped him from going further. The officer pointed down the hill and said, "There's your house."

"I didn't see the house. I just saw flames," Vargas said. "I knew it was gone."

Firefighters battle a blaze Monday at the Veterans Memorial Community Center in Marysville.

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Firefighters from at least four jurisdictions knocked down a fire Monday at the Veterans Memorial Community Center in Marysville, but not before most of the west side of the building had burned and taken the contents with it.

The area where the fire appeared to start is where the kitchen is located, witnesses confirmed.

A building at West Street School shows scorch marks after a fire Thursday that's being investigated as arson.

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“We caught it early and the damage wasn’t too bad. There were no other structures at the school damaged,” said Fire Chief Martin Spannaus, who estimated damage at $10,000.

“An abandoned old Dodge Van was on fire, and we have evidence it, too, was an arson fire,” Spannaus said. “It appears the fire started from a flammable liquid.”

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At 9:14 a.m., the former detective was driving at the intersection of Harding Road and Cherry Street when he saw a man, suspected to be Lynn, climb through a broken garage window of a home on Cherry, the department said.

Lynn attempted to leave out the garage window only to be stopped by the detective, the department said. Lynn then went back into the residence and escaped through a bedroom window. Sheriff's deputies arrived and chased him on foot, losing sight of him in the 1900 block of Jacob Street.

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A rich vein of gold was discovered in southwest Yuba City - and a burglar or team of burglars was busily mining it, authorities said. Seven houses were hit, and one victim lost more than $10,000 worth of jewelry, Sutter County Undersheriff J. Paul Parker said Friday.

All the victims were East Indians. Most of the loot was gold jewelry - bracelets, earrings and bangles. In all but one of the cases, burglars found an unlocked window or door during daylight hours when no one was home, he said. Cash and electronics also were taken “if they were handy,” the undersheriff said.

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When Bidwell Bar Drive neighbors saw four teenage burglars breaking into a home Saturday, they detained two and gave a vehicle description and license plate number to deputies, leading to the arrest of all four suspects, department spokeswoman Melanie Oakes said.

The four are believed responsible for three or four home burglaries in Plumas Lake on April 5, 6 and 12, said Oakes.

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Yuba City police are warning residents to keep their garages, doors and windows locked after "hot prowl" burglaries of three occupied houses early Wednesday in the same area of the city.

"Everything else is just stuff," Young said. "But my wedding ring is what hurts me."

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It was a busy day for the Yuba City Fire Department and Oswald-Tudor station Tuesday as crews responded to two fires in Yuba City within four hours of each other.

Marysville Fire Department also joined the fight of the three-alarm fire that ripped through the garage of the house in the 1500 block of Holly Tree Drive in Yuba City. The fire, reported at about 5:15 p.m., also ignited cypress trees along the back of the yard and caused at least one spot fire on the street north of the home, according to Yuba City Battalion Chief Jeff Julian.

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Fireplaces and wood-burning stoves have caused "probably at least half a dozen fires in Yuba City in November," said Jim Mathews, chief fire safety inspector for the City of Yuba City.

On Thanksgiving Day, heat from the metal flue of a wood-burning stove in a Sutter County home led materials in the roof to ignite and a fire to spread across the attic and through a bedroom ceiling. Mathews said there have been several chimney fires locally this season, although they did not cause major fires.

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Pushed by north wind gusts up to 30 mph, a grass fire quickly got out of hand Friday and consumed at least four residences and a number of outbuildings north of Wheatland.

The fire briefly threatened the Plumas Brophy Fire Department's Station One on Dairy Road. Across the street, a one-story residence and a mobile home at the northwest corner of Dairy and Highway 65 were destroyed. The mobile home apparently was vacant, Stineman said.

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Yuba City Fire Department Battalion Chief Robert Bills said a Yuba City patrol officer passing the home in the 500 block of Cooper Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Thursday noticed the fire and smoke coming from the garage and pounded on the door to wake the family.

The second incident occurred around 6 p.m. Wednesday in West Linda with only two children home at the time of the fire. Linda Fire Chief Richard Webb said the 15-year-old daughter of the home's occupants, was watching her 6-year-old brother when she heard a popping in the back of the house.     Webb said the home sustained losses estimated at $100,000.

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Fuller said there were a lot of personal storage items in the two-car garage but no vehicles parked there. The fire was determined to be electrical but the point of cause hadn't been determined, Fuller said. The department estimated damage at $71,000. 

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Eva Woodard could only watch in disbelief as the house she once called home burned down to its foundation Thursday night. “It’s unbelievable ... There is nothing left of the house. It’s burned to the ground,” Woodard said.

“The fire had already vented itself through a front window, and a quick walk around (the house) showed it was burning through the back of the house. So about half the first floor of the house was involved at arrival,” said Sutter County Fire Chief Dan Yager.

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Marysville Fire Engineer Brad Hudson moves a tree branch out of the way Tuesday morning so firefighters can access the Kustom Truck warehouse after a fire ripped through the Yuba City business

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