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How America Can Prevent Devastating Wildfires - More Perfect Union
Firefighters told us that one of the best ways to fight fire is with more fire. We spoke to wildland firefighters on the front lines about how we must rethink the way that we control wildfires as the climate crisis intensifies. They said that we need to burn the forest to save it.
We originally publishing this video in October of 2021. Now as wildfires rage across Canada and the American West and blanket the East Coast in smoke, we're re-releasing it.
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Wasn't there a huge run on rakes at Lowe's and Home Depot for the next few months? We even had to get cheap imported rakes from China.
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