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Washington Town Wiped Out By Wildfire Will Get Delayed Federal Aid

Five months after most of the farming town of Malden, Wash., was destroyed, President Biden has approved a stalled federal aid package.
A wildfire raced through Malden, Wash., on Labor Day, 2020. Residents had only a few minutes to evacuate and returned to a largely destroyed town.

In Washington state, federal aid is finally coming to a struggling farming community that was nearly decimated by a wildfire last Labor Day.

The Biden administration on Thursday approved a presidential disaster declaration that had been for nearly

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