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The Trump administration upended how we fight wildfires. Then came the West’s worst fire season in years.
The Trump administration altered how wildfires are fought, coinciding with the West experiencing a severe fire season. This situation involves Western forests filled with dry fuels due to decades of extinguishing wildfires and climate change-induced drought.
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