Causes of CT’s wildfires vary, but the underlying conditions are the same: abnormally dry conditions that left a landscape primed to burn.
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Causes of CT’s wildfires vary, but the underlying conditions are the same: abnormally dry conditions that left a landscape primed to burn.
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