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New technology propels efforts to fight Western wildfires

by Don Thompson
| July 26, 2021 12:09 AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As drought- and wind-driven wildfires have become more dangerous across the American West in recent years, firefighters have tried to become smarter in how they prepare.

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