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Oakland Fire Chief Damon Covington said this week that the vegetation fire in the city earlier this month would have been "virtually impossible" to fight if the budget cuts in the contingency budget were already in place. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)Oakland is facing a structural budget deficit of $120 million over the next two years.
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