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That burning feeling is real, and it’s associated with lactate and acidity and muscular fuel levels. But it’s just a feeling. The lactate and ATP are actually helping me.

The statement said firefighters are using back burns, a technique to burn already downed or dead wood in the fire’s path to starve it of fuel. “Homeowners around the area are prone to seeing smoke and ...