Fire
On October 22, 2007 the school was surrounded by the "Magic" fire. The fire did not get any closer than the gates and the hills bordering the school. The school was already closed that Monday due to the fire risk, however the school was closed for an extra day due to unhealthy air conditions. The school suffered smoke damage to the gym and other buildings.
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West Ranch High School with "Magic" Fire in distance.
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Flames near the West Ranch football field.
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Large helicopters tried to put out the blaze before it reached West Ranch.
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But that I know love is begun by time,
And that I see, in passages of proof,
Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.”
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These two who are my father and my mother
Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?”
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A diagram hung there instead,
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