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Media access to wildfires, disasters varies widely by state

by Associated Press
| September 11, 2020 12:03 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Journalists have captured searing, intimate images of active and dangerous wildfires burning in California, due in large part to a decades-old state law that guarantees press virtually unfettered access to disaster sites in evacuated areas that are off-limits to the public.

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