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COMMENTS: Playing with Fire
CBS had Sandra Hughes lead with the western forest fires that have burned 1.5m acres, mostly in Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Utah. She focused on the rising annual death toll for NFS firefighters, up from an average of around six 60 years ago to more than 20 this decade. There is more danger because more homes are near fire zones. Hughes reported on a federal investigation that criticizes the NFS for taking too many risks to protect mere property. The firefighters' union countered that "the real problem is not reckless firefighting but risky homebuilding."
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