Facing the flames

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FACING THE FLAMES | Jen Hannon

A Navy chopper crew tackles a wildfire

Spitfire flames jumped from the top of one brittle tree to the next. The mission, maybe impossible, was to save a neighborhood of leafy, curving streets just 300 yards up a small hill. More...

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