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Gutierrez affected by South Carolina fire

By Steve Wright
ESPNOutdoors.com

Friday, June 22, 2007

GROVE, Okla. — Greg Gutierrez was practicing for the Bassmaster Elite Series Sooner Run on Grand Lake earlier this week when his cell phone rang. "My battalion chief called," said the 45-year-old pro angler and fire captain from Red Bluff, Calif. "He asked if I'd been watching the news. I said, no, I haven't seen anything. He said we'd just lost nine men in South Carolina. "I just sat down in the boat. It really takes the wind out of your sails." If you didn't already know it, the terror ...

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