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Mike Simpson: “It is very expensive to try to save those structures once a fire starts out there.”

On the recordApril 6, 2014
It is very expensive to try to save those structures once a fire starts out there.
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Mike Simpson
Republican · Idaho

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Discussing the high costs associated with wildfire damage to homes.

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