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FOLKSTON, Ga. (AP) - Mark Ruggiero has 400 firefighters, 56 engines, 49 bulldozers and nine helicopters under his command. And that still won't be enough to snuff out the wildfires that have shrouded the Okefenokee Swamp in smoke and flame for the past month.
His only hope is a big rainstorm just shy of a hurricane. And it could be months before that happens.
"The fire will burn in the swamp until we get a tropical depression that will drop 9 to 10 inches of rain," said Ruggiero, who has been directing firefighters headquartered at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. "That's what it's going to take."
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