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Watch now: A 2020 flash flood carries runoff from Tucson's Bighorn Fire
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Watch now: A 2020 flash flood carries runoff from Tucson's Bighorn Fire

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A flash flood hit the Cañada del Oro Wash near Edwin Road in July 2020, during the burning of the massive Bighorn Fire in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. The flash flood carried burned debris and runoff from the fire. 

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