Seasonal firefighters seek health care coverage

July 9, 2012, 9:09 am by Associated Press Healthwire

DENVER (AP) -- They work the front lines of the nation's most explosive wildfires, navigating treacherous terrain, dense walls of smoke and tall curtains of flame. Yet thousands of the nation's seasonal firefighters have no health insurance for themselves or their families....

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