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"He's one of the most incredible professionals I've ever seen," said Huerta, now a technical secretary at Cerro Porteno in Paraguay.

Its service area includes some of the worst-hit streets from the fire, including Cerro Crest and Estaban drives, where more than 20 homes were destroyed, according to the county’s preliminary map of damaged and destroyed structures and one of the water suppliers’ footprint.

He completed the first ascent of the "Summer Bouquet" on Alexander Block Peak in Kyrgyzstan, and repeated a "legendary route" on the Cerro Torre's south-east ridge in South America, his website says.

Most of the monumental trip had gone smoothly for the $168 million instrument, which will provide never-before-seen views into outer space and allow groundbreaking astronomical research from its perch in the specially built Rubin Observatory atop the Cerro Pachón ridge in Chile.

There were a few hitches as the nine-truck camera convoy wound its way for more than six hours up a 22-mile gravel road to Cerro Pachón at about 8,900 foot elevation in the Andes foothills — notably a loss of traction by the vehicle carrying the camera container — but it arrived safely midday May 16.