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On the recordApril 17, 2012
Is it your intention in a wildfire, wildland fire on Federal land, to let the land burn or to attack it at its beginning?
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Dianne Feinstein
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the policy on wildfire management.

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