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National Forest Crews Involved In Western Fire Battles

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Crews from the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest have gone out west to help fight wildfires.

According to authorities,  22 large wildfires are burning nearly 850,000 acres in four western states and Alaska.

One of the Chequamegon-Nicolet firefighters is David Sloan from Park Falls. He was sent to Washington state to fight a blaze in north central Washington....

"....I was on a fire about 4,000 acres called the Newby Lake fire, really active fire behavior. A lot of the area is ready for fire..."

Sloan says that particular fire was put under control and he was released from the area, but other firefighters from the national forest are at other locations.

Authorities say so far this fire season,  5.5 million acres have been burned in the U.S. fires, the second-highest total acreage burned  in at least 20 years. Canada also has had an active fire season.

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