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New River Gorge National River distributed $60,000 worth of equipment to 18 fire departments in the four county region around the park in October. Funding for the equipment came from the federal Rural Fire Assistance program, part of the National Fire Plan. Some of the equipment purchased locally includes chainsaws and leaf blowers. Leaf blowers, not usually associated with firefighting, can be very effective tools in surface fires in deciduous forests on rocky slopes.
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