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Chipping away at fire season

Tiburon resident Ray Lynch drops off vegetation cuttings he collected from around the neighborhood at Blackie’s Pasture on May 10 for the first free Chipper Day of the year. Hosted by the Tiburon Fire Protection District and Tiburon Department of Public Works, residents can drop off cuttings and tree stumps for free to help protect the community against wildfires. Staff and volunteers who collected the vegetation with tractors and piled it into containers estimated a total of 400 cubic yards would be collected by the end of the day, one of the highest volumes in recent years. The event runs 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on second Saturdays through September, with the next on June 14. (Leo Leung / For The Ark)
Tiburon resident Ray Lynch drops off vegetation cuttings he collected from around the neighborhood at Blackie’s Pasture on May 10 for the first free Chipper Day of the year. Hosted by the Tiburon Fire Protection District and Tiburon Department of Public Works, residents can drop off cuttings and tree stumps for free to help protect the community against wildfires. Staff and volunteers who collected the vegetation with tractors and piled it into containers estimated a total of 400 cubic yards would be collected by the end of the day, one of the highest volumes in recent years. The event runs 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on second Saturdays through September, with the next on June 14. (Leo Leung / For The Ark)

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