Hop Canyon

That Humming Sound

By Michael Mideke

It is pretty quiet where I live in Hop Canyon. City folk remark on the absence of noise. Some find it a little unsettling, like sudden deafness.

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Firewise Event At Hop Canyon Fire Department

The Hop Canyon fire Department hosted it’s first annual Community Firewise event Saturday, July 23. Residents from the canyon and the entire Magdalena area were given demonstrations on making their property safer.

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Thinking “Like A Fire” For Safety

By Michael Mideke
Hop Canyon

For those of us who have taken up volunteer firefighting, fire season never ends. But there are better and worse times. This summer is about as worse a time as we ever want to see.

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