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California firefighters critically injured setting backfires

by Don Thompson
| December 3, 2020 10:27 AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two firefighters critically burned while trying to set backfires to slow the spread of a Southern California wildfire in October likely shouldn’t have been there in the first place given the extraordinarily dangerous conditions, according to an investigation of the incident.

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