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Published online 21 May 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070521-3
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Power cut endangers marine lab experiments
California wildfire shuts down power at Wrigley Marine Science Center.
An island research lab off the coast of California scrambled to save a number of marine experiments earlier this month because it had no back-up generators when an unexpected wildfire shut down power.
The Wrigley Marine Science Center, on Catalina Island about 30 kilometres from Los Angeles, lost power shortly after the 10 May brush fire burned down power poles.
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