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Wildfire Season at Breaking Point | Durham News
This year’s wildfire season is already brutal—three firefighters dead, a pilot lost, and flames fueled by drought, low snowpack, and relentless heat. Fire managers are scrambling, deploying thousands of personnel and hundreds of rigs across the country, with the National Interagency Fire Center at “preparedness level 4.” Since July, over 2,000 fires have erupted, requiring elite teams from Alaska and California to respond. Sixteen incident management teams now oversee nearly 17,000 people across 12 states, creating a tense balancing act: send crews to help—or keep them home for local…
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