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How a ‘Hillbilly Brigade’ saved an Oregon town from raging wildfires

MOLALLA, Ore. (Reuters) – Nicole West steered her bulldozer through the smoldering forest, pushing logs into the underbrush and away from the wildfires ripping through Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. Her border collie, Oink, rode shotgun as West and a volunteer crew raced to clear a fire line. https://www.reuters.com/video/?videoId=RCV008QSW&jwsource=em Behind West, on the front lines of the …

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