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The fall fire season is setting up to be a difficult one, and officials with the Virginia Department of Forestry want to emphasize that folks need to be extra careful with fire. Drought like conditions in most areas of the state have left ground water levels at historically low levels.

The drought conditions, along with the falling leaves and the curing of frost killed vegetation throughout most regions of the Commonwealth, leads to easier fire starts, and more extreme fire behavior, which makes control efforts more

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