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07/29/2008
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In the role in which we’re most at home: as the yardstick by which to measure catastrophe.
With active wildfires in 10 states this weekend burning a total of nearly 687,000 acres — an area larger than the state of Rhode Island — the escalating cost of fighting fires is a rising concern. Nearly 12,000 men and women have deployed to fight fires, primarily in California and other Western states, but also in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
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