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On Wednesday, federal agents checked the IDs of two private contract firefighting crews that had been working the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula.

The operation included the U.S. Border Patrol, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Border Patrol alleged two of the firefighters entered the country illegally.

It was an unusual scene for federal

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