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Last year, the Indian government set a March 2026 deadline to end the insurgency and launched intensified security operations under its "ruthless" containment strategy.

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Key to managing this is employing what Ogundehin terms "containment" - dedicating set spaces for objects, rather than spreading them endlessly throughout your home.

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Incarcerated firefighters don’t wield hoses, but clear brush and dig containment lines while working on front-line hand crews and do work such as cooking and laundry to keep fire camps running.

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Firefighters had anticipated that the blaze would eventually move in this direction and reiterated that the main body of the fire remained inside primary containment lines and that things were still going as planned.

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Flames have reached the southernmost point of the well-traveled McKinley Grove Road, which is being used “as a major containment feature,” she said.

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