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| Firefighters monitor flames behind a home during a burnout operation that was performed near Durango, Colo. June 11, 2018. The burnout is used to take away fuel from wildfires. Firefighters use the technique to burn in conditions so that they can control the fire and prevent the loss of homes. JERRY MCBRIDE/AP |
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Firefighters clear burned and unburned brush from a hillside after a wildfire broke out in the Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles June 12, 1018. More than 250 firefighters raced to the hills overlooking Los Angeles to battle a blaze that ignited in thick brush surrounded by mansions. REED SAXON/AP |
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A bird flies past smoke from the Badger Creek Fire in Mountain Home, Wyo. June 10, 2018. SHANNON BRODERICK/AP |
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A helicopter works the wildfire on the east side of Hermosa Cliffs near Hermosa, Colo. June 9, 2018. JERRY MCBRIDE/AP |
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Charlie Looney, a firefighter with Albany County Central Fire Department, closes a compartment in his truck as smoke from the Badger Creek Fire drifts through the trees behind him June 10, 2018 in Mountain Home, Wyo. SHANNON BRODERICK/AP |
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Firefighters clear burned and unburned brush from a hillside above Portola Drive after a wildfire broke out in the Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles June 12, 1018. More than 250 firefighters raced to the hills overlooking Los Angeles to battle a blaze that ignited in thick brush surrounded by mansions. REED SAXON/AP |
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A water-dropping helicopter trails mist as firefighters clear burned and unburned brush from a hillside above Portola Drive after a wildfire broke out in the Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles June 12, 1018. REED SAXON/AP |
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Randy Black deputy chief of Durango Fire Protection District, and Mike Tombolato, a Rocky Mountain Type One Team member, look over as a fire burns around homes during a burnout operation, a technique used to consume fuel from a growing wildfire, near Durango, Colo. June 11, 2018. JERRY MCBRIDE/AP |
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Several wildfires in Colorado have filled the region with high levels of smoke in the air as the sky turns red as the sun sets behind the Rocky Mountains late June 12, 2018, in Denver. DAVID ZALUBOWSKI, AP |
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Vehicles from Wyoming State Highway Patrol and the Albany County Sheriff's Office block Highway 230 near Wood's Landing, Wyo. June 11, 2018. SHANNON BRODERICK/AP |
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