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remote locations and you have to get power to them somehow,” he said.

Upkeep, which is typically the power company's responsibility, can also be more difficult in rural areas, and many lines in Rappahannock have been neglected, Cooper said.

“A lot of these lines I think could use more maintenance.,” he said. “They just haven’t been kept up like they should.”

Cooper said that power lines are typically the second or third most common cause of brush fires, but in the past few weeks they have led to more fires than any other source in Rappahannock and Madison counties, he said.

Cooper said that on Feb. 10, power lines caused about seven fires in Madison and Rappahannock counties. Since the summer, power lines have been cited as the source of six fires in Rappahannock. burning a total

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