DEADWOOD — Locals seem to know exactly what they were doing the minute they found out the Grizzly Gulch Fire was raging through the pine-laden hillsides of Deadwood two decades ago.

It was a Saturday afternoon — June 29, 2002, to be exact. It was incredibly hot. It was dangerously dry. And it was just windy enough to fan and fuel the flames, as the Grizzly Gulch Fire burst forth from its namesake locale along U.S. Highway 385 south of Deadwood.

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