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More homes are going up in wildfire-prone areas in the Mountain West region

Climate change is fueling larger and more destructive wildfires in the West, but that’s not stopping people from moving into wildfire-prone areas.

Kaleb Roedel of the Mountain West News Bureau reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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