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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Eric Flowers / The Bulletin
May 1, 2005
When a fire ignites in Bend's sister city of Condega, a town of approximately 15,000 people in northern Nicaragua, neighbors and volunteers can only gather to point garden hoses and heave buckets of water, often in vain.
If a fire burns long enough, the fire department in Condega's neighboring....