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The United States Forest Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres. Major divisions of the agency include the National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, and the Research and Development branch. - Source: Wikipedia
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The U.S. Forest Service says day-use areas and campgrounds near Horseshoe and Bartlett lakes are closed and people that were already in those areas were being escorted out.
Fire burning on national forest land near Phoenix →
"All potentially hazardous chemicals will be stored within a secondary containment vessel to ensure there is no leak onto or into the ground, nearby streams, or existing boreholes," the company said in its permit application. "No chemicals will be disposed of onsite. All trash and waste will be removed from the site and disposed of properly."
