Border Patrol arrests 2 firefighters for being in the country illegally as they battled Washington’s biggest wildfire

By Celina Tebor, CNN

Border Patrol agents arrested two firefighters Wednesday – who they say were in the United States illegally – while they were working to contain Washington state’s biggest wildfire.

The Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service had requested support from a local Border Patrol station as the agencies terminated work contracts with two firms on the Olympic Peninsula, according to a news release from US Customs and Border Protection. Without offering details, the agency said the contracts were ended following the conclusion of a criminal investigation by the Bureau of Land Management.

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The Bear Gulch Fire on the peninsula has already torched almost 9,000 acres in the Olympic National Forest.

The Bureau of Land Management requested that Borde