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SEATTLE, Wash. 鈥?Working in emergency services means putting yourself in dangerous situations.Often, it is life or death, like when a devastating mudslide hit a community north of Seattle in 2014. I was deployed to the Oso mudslide about seven years ago and it was a mudslide that killed 40 people, said Lt. Michael Dulas, with the Seattle Fire Department. My role was to help search the mudslide for people. So, we were literally digging, looking for people, he said. The weeks-long search effort left an impression on Dulas and hundreds of other first responders. We were up there for four 24 h
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