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Heat shimmers off the surface of Highway 33 near the agricultural town of Firebaugh, west of Fresno. The state route is a workaday road, a highway for short-haul truckers and agricultural sales reps, for vans shuttling prisoners, convoys of harvesters and even the occasional lone tractor.

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( Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times )

Heat shimmers off the surface of Highway 33 near the agricultural town of Firebaugh, west of Fresno. The state route is a workaday road, a highway for short-haul truckers and agricultural sales reps, for vans shuttling prisoners, convoys of harvesters and even the occasional lone tractor.

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