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A federal judge has ruled the Al Bahr Shriners of San Diego are barred from recovering most damages from the U.S. government relating to the destruction of their summer camp in the Laguna mountains in 2013. The Shriners lost virtually everything in their camp on July 9, 2013, when the Chariot fire rose from the desert floor and burned across Sunrise Highway in the Cleveland National Forest. The 7,000-acre fire destroyed the nearly century-old Al Bahr Shriners Camp. The 87-year-old lodge, a dining hall, a caretaker cabin, two dormitories and five rental cabins burned, as did more than 100 small cabins that were privately owed by Shriners. Several other structures outside the camp were also either partially burned or destroyed.

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