Oregon Hotshot team is one of just seven elite crews fighting wildfires on American Indian reservations

Leander Smith, a member of the Warm Springs Hotshots, prepares to battle a blaze in the hills above Warm Springs, Ore., July 1, 2018. Most Warm Springs Hotshots belong to one of the three Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and live on the sparsely populated reservation about 100 miles southeast of Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Tom James)

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