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Paul Gosar: “Forest Service has said, listen, if the fire is out there…”

Featuring: Paul Gosar, Republican | U.S. House Arizona, District 9

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Jared Huffman And Paul Gosar Go Back And Forth Over Regulations On Fighting Wildfires

Published | Video Starts at 05:12

So I would like to enter in with the ranking member. So we're talking about capricious actions. We now had three instances, I can point to you three instances in which Forest Service has said, listen, if the fire is out there, we're going to let it burn. They've made a decision that if it's a way for populations, we're going to let it burn. Well, that happened in Yarn Hill 19. (05:12–05:18)

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Asserts that the Forest Service has a policy to let fires burn if they are away from populations.

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