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By Dylan J. Darling / The Bulletin
December 24, 2012
A federal dispatcher at 6:30 a.m. Sept. 9 disregarded the first report of a wisp of smoke near Sisters, what became the Pole Creek Fire, and delayed by three hours firefighters’ response to the largest wildfire in Central Oregon this year.
Forest Supervisor John Allen of the Deschutes National....