Federal authorities arrested two firefighters working on containing the Bear Gulch wildfire in Washington state in what was believed to be an immigration sting.
A spokesperson for the incident management team leading the wildfire containment told the Seattle Times that they were “aware of a Border Patrol operation on the fire” but that it wasn’t interfering with the firefighting response. The operation was reportedly tense and involved expletives exchanged.
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