Aspen fire, ten years after

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The Aspen Fire burned from June 17, 2003 for about a month on Mount Lemmon,
part of the Santa Catalina Mountains located in the Coronado National Forest north
of Tucson, Arizona, and in the surrounding area. It burned 84,750 acres (343.0 km2)
(132.4 sq mi) of land, and destroyed 340 homes and businesses of the town of Summerhaven.

Damages to electric lines, phone lines, water facilities, streets and sewers totaled
$4.1 million. Firefighting cost was about $17 million, and the Forest Service
is spending $2.7 million to prevent soil loss.

In 2002, the year before the fire started, Congress had been requested to allocate
about $2,000,000 to cover the implementation of fire prevention measures in the
Coronado National Forest. However, that allocation was reduced to about $150,000
in the Congressional budget process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Fire

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1. $2,000,000 reduced to $150,000

and there it is