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All wildfires are not alike, but the US is fighting them that way

  • Written by Stephen Pyne, Regents Professor in the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Wildland firefighters, like this crew heading into New Mexico's Gila National Forest, in 2012, are equipped and operate differently from urban firefighters.USFS Gila National Forest, CC BY-SA

So far, the 2018 fire season has produced a handful of big fires in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado; conflagrations in Oklahoma and Kansas; and a...

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