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Wildfire Sparks Renewal for Reclusive Artist Ray Dutcher

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If a wildfire threatened your house, what's the one thing you would take with you? Eighty-five-year-old Ray Dutcher had to make that decision back in February. That's when a wall of fire three stories high roared down a mountain toward his remote cabin near Bishop in the Eastern Sierra. As he fled in his old truck, the one thing he decided to take with him was a painting he'd been working on since 1982. Reporter Peter Gilstrap tells us how that wildfire sparked the artist's rediscovery and his first show in four decades.

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