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A member of the BLM Silver State Hotshot crew uses a drip torch to set backfires on the southern flank of the Rim Fire in California on Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. The blaze became the fourth-largest wildfire in California history on Saturday. (AP Photo/U.S. Forest Service)
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Police and firefighters work at the site of a house fire that killed four people in Elmira, N.Y., on Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. Police say firefighters pulled four victims from the building and took them to the hospital, but none survived the night. The cause was under investigation. (AP Photo/Elmira Star-Gazette, Ron Levanduski)
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Radio host Dana Loesch.
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A Delta 4-Heavy rocket, carrying a spy satellite for the U.S. government, is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. The rocket carried a satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees the nation's constellation of intelligence-gathering satellites. (AP Photo/The Santa Maria Times, Daniel Dreifuss)
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Inmate firefighters walk along Highway 120 after a burnout operation as firefighters continue to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Fire crews are clearing brush and setting sprinklers to protect two groves of giant sequoias as a massive week-old wildfire rages along the remote northwest edge of Yosemite National Park. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Fire Chief Kenneth B. Ellerbe says the D.C. fire department will buy new ambulances and hire single-role paramedics to bolster response capabilities. A news conference with Mayor Vincent C. Gray at the Chinatown fire station Tuesday got testy as the paramedic plan runs counter to recommendations made years ago. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Scorched earth: Ground crews depend on air tankers to help fight blazes such as the giant Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, one of California's largest wildfires ever. Story, A7. (Associated Press)
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A military C-130 drops a load of fire retardant on a wildfire near Pine, Colo., on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver forced the evacuation of dozens of homes Wednesday as hot and windy conditions in much of Colorado and elsewhere in the West made it easy for fires to start and spread. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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In this citizen journalism image which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of damaged buildings due to heavy shelling by Syrian government forces in Aleppo, Syria, on Aug. 26, 2013. (Associated Press/Aleppo Media Center)
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Sailors aboard the USS Barry, a guided-missile destroyer deployed to the Mediterranean. (Credit: U.S. Navy) ** FILE **
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Syrians inspect the rubble of a building damaged by heavy shelling by Syrian government forces in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013.This citizen journalism image was authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center)
