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Archive Home > 2007 > August > 26 > A mistake that killed 22,000 fish

A mistake that killed 22,000 fish

Potentially toxic retardant is under federal scrutiny

By By Keith Chu / The Bulletin
August 26, 2007

WASHINGTON — Russ Seaton still remembers how Fall River looked, just after a U.S. Forest Service plane accidentally dropped more than a thousand pounds of fire retardant into the stream in 2002.

“It was almost a scene from a movie where an atomic nuclear attack had taken....

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