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Goats Help Save Reagan Library From Wildfires

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   As hot, dry Santa Ana winds whipped up wildfires in Southern California
   this week, 300 unlikely heroes were being credited with helping save
   the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.

   Three hundred goats, that is.

   That's because in May, 300 goats were brought to the library to eat all
   the brush around the complex.

   "We actually worked with the Ventura County Fire Department in May and
   they bring out hundreds of goats to our property," Melissa Giller, a
   spokeswoman for the library, told ABC. "The goats eat all of the brush
   around the entire property, creating a fire perimeter.

   "The firefighters on the property said that the fire break really
   helped them, because as the fire was coming up that one hill, all the
   brush has been cleared, basically," she said.

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