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Residents displaced by the Seven Mile Hill fire west of The Dalles can return to their homes, according to an evacuation notification from Wasco County Sheriff posted on their Facebook page at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Residents are encouraged to remain vigilant, with "get ready" and "get set" evacuation levels remaining in place for some areas.

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On Aug. 14, The Dalles resident Yvonne Pepin-Wakefield, a local artist, drove to her rural cabin outside John Day only to find herself amid the Canyon Creek Complex fire. After four days of being evacuated from the log cabin she built at age 18, she returned home to The Dalles.But she couldn’t stop thinking about John Day.

Most of the 700 individuals of Japanese ancestry who were relocated from Hood River on May 13, 1942, have since passed on. Those who remain were young children at the time of the incarceration.