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This is a P news Minute, authorities in Oregon

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are asking for additional firefighting crews as the state sends

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its own personnel to battle the bootleg fire. The

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massive wildfire has scorched well over 500 square miles,

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mostly forest and wilderness in southwest Oregon. New evacuations

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have been ordered in northern California, south of Lake

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Tahoe. A wildfire there burned 36 square miles by

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late monday and was not contained at all. Senate

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republicans are threatening to block a procedural vote on an

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infrastructure bill until its details are worked out. Democrats

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are pushing that bill plus legislation to help families,

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education and the climate. Six people were taken to

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hospitals after a house exploded in plano texas, a

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suburb of Dallas. Fire officials investigating the cause determined

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it wasn't a crime scene after a search dog found

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no explosives or hazardous material. Ed Donahue, The

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Associated Press with AP News Minute.