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**Controlled Burns: The Billion-Dollar Firefighting Secret Taxpayers Overlook**
*By Elena Vasquez, Global1.news*
SACRAMENTO — As wildfire seasons grow more ferocious, a deceptively simple tool is quietly saving taxpayers billions: intentional fire.
Prescribed burns—carefully set, low-intensity fires that clear dead brush—cost a fraction of the aerial armadas deployed to fight megafires. Yet federal land managers still treat them as an afterthought.
The math is stark....
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