HART’S LOCATION — As flames crept across the steep, dry slopes near Arethusa Falls over the weekend, Mark Dindorf found himself confronting a familiar and frustrating reality: a small town once again bracing for the cost of wildfires.
Dindorf, chair of the Hart’s Location Board of Selectmen, said the roughly 20-acre fire that broke out Saturday in Crawford Notch State Park underscores a long-standing concern for the state’s smallest municipality — one with limited resources, vast forestland and a rail line running through its most vulnerable terrain.
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