In a year in which the NIFC reported that nearly 40,000 wildfires have burned more than 5.8 million acres, the greatest acreage since 2015 and well above the annual average of 3.7 million acres, an Op-Ed piece rails at Washington's inaction on passing meaningful legislation to better deal with wildland blazes.

Washington vs. wildfires

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