On Aug. 4, the day the fire started, New Mexico Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D, requested that the Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog agency, 'examine the prevalence and potential effects of toxic metals in fire retardants' used by the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior.
Requesting investigation into fire retardants' safety.
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