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Wildfire Crisis Escalates Across the West | Odessa News
Wildfires across the West are exploding into a crisis as the nation’s preparedness level hits its highest ever—four—triggering a massive mobilization of thousands of firefighters and hundreds of engines. This year’s fire season has already claimed the lives of three firefighters in Colorado and a pilot in a helicopter crash. Drought, low snowpack, and relentless heat and wind have turned forests into tinderboxes, with hundreds of homes already lost. The National Interagency Fire Center is deploying elite teams from Alaska and California to manage blazes across 12 states, coordinating nearly…
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