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Pandemic adds risk to already dangerous job of firefighting

by Kaiser Health News
| August 23, 2020 12:03 AM

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Jon Paul was leery entering his first wildfire camp of the year late last month to fight three lightning-caused fires scorching parts of a Northern California forest that hadn’t burned in 40 years.

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