'Hillbilly Brigade' fired up dozers and pickups to save Oregon town from fire
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Nicole West steered her bulldozer through the smoldering forest, pushing logs into the underbrush and away from the wildfires ripping through Oregon's Cascade Mountains. Behind West, on the front lines of the 136,000-acre Riverside fire, two young men pulled a water tank behind their pickup truck, struggling to douse the flames. In a year when ferocious wildfires have killed at least 21 people and burned millions of acres in Oregon, Washington and California, the brigade has pulled off a miracContinue reading 'Hillbilly Brigade' fired up dozers and pickups to save Oregon town from fire
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