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From an office at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta spoke with Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr., commander of U.S. Northern Command, to get an update about the Colorado wildfires threatening Colorado Springs and the U.S. Air Force Academy there, June 28, 2012.

FIRE UPDATE

From an office at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta spoke with Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr., commander of U.S. Northern Command, to get an update about the Colorado wildfires threatening Colorado Springs and the U.S. Air Force Academy there, June 28, 2012.

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