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A resident uses a smartphone mapping app to view the latest information about the Bootleg fire in the mountains north of Bly, Oregon. Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The peri-urban mobile program is an initiative to improve mobile and reception issues in fringes of large cities and to help communities in bushfire-prone areas to have better reception.
The initiative will be aided by $20 million (US$13.5 million) of government funds.
