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Western Fires

NPR
Published August 13, 2000 at 11:00 PM CDT

NPR's Mark Roberts provides an update on the fires that have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres in the western U.S. Firefighters are making headway on some of the blazes, but many others continue to rage out of control.

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