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Mild winter raises forest fire threat

By David Abel

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 22, 2012

Extraordinarily dry conditions from the lack of snowfall, combined with all the fallen tree limbs from last year’s triple whammy of tornadoes, tropical storm Irene, and the Halloween-eve snowstorm, will make the next few months the most dangerous forest fire season in memory in Massachusetts, state officials warn. The 3 million acres of forests are the equivalent of a tinderbox, and there have already been more than 70 brush fires.

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