From Matt Wuerker
Via Politico, used with permission.
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Yes, because there were never forest fires until Henry Ford came along. I guess that they are a new phenomenon? I could had swore reading just yesterday that the amount of area lost to fires has dropped considerably from a couple of centuries ago.
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