Hanford area fire burns 1,300 acres before being controlled

A Sunday fire near the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state has been extinguished but not before it burned 1,300 acres, according to a Hanford announcement on Facebook.
“Wind gusts fanned the flames, but the Hanford Fire Department, managed…

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