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Conrad Burns Tells Firefighters They Did "A Poor Job" Battling 92,000 Acre Blaze...

Conrad Burns Tells Firefighters They Did "A Poor Job" Battling 92,000 Acre Blaze...
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Republican Sen. Conrad Burns chastised a group of firefighters over the weekend for doing a "poor job" dousing a 92,000-acre blaze near Billings, a state report shows.

Burns and the firefighters - members of the Augusta Hot Shots from the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest in Virginia -were at Billings Logan International Airport awaiting flights, according to Burns and Forest Service representatives.

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