Also, some cargo just isn't nice to have in your passenger compartment. (Bags of fertilizer or pieces of greasy machinery come to mind.) The Avalanche's bed is covered in a tough plastic lining, easily hosed out or just left harmlessly filthy.

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In the streets surrounding the extensive blaze people gathered, grouping together and taking up high vantage points, lining up at the plastic police tape stretched between trees, railings and bollards, doing their best to get a better view.

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