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Thursday, August 2, 2007

Big trucks allowed in fire-ravaged counties

Governor Sonny Perdue is opening up smaller southeast Georgia roadways to oversized trucks cleaning up after this spring’s wildfires. Today the Governor said allowing the trucks in necessary so they can remove burnt timber from 21 southeast Georgia counties. The worst wildfires in Georgia’s recorded history tore through those counties starting in April. It took firefighters until June to put them out. More than half-a-million acres burned.

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