Fuel reduction efforts dropped from the year before SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vastly overstated wildfire prevention work completed by his administration, according to a Capital Public Radio investigation released...
Fear of Wildfires Forces Forest Closures Across Arizona
High fire danger and resources running thin By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — When temperatures are sweltering in Arizona's desert areas, people head to the forests to camp, hike, fish and just cool off. But options for finding...
Montana Man Arrested for Causing Wildfire Near Yellowstone
Over two dozens homes and structures destroyed HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man was arrested Wednesday for causing a fire near Yellowstone National Park that has burned 46 square miles (120 square kilometers) and torched more than two dozen homes and...
Good Weather Aids Firefighters on California’s Coastal Range
The Willow Fire is 13% contained BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — An influx of moist and cool ocean air was helping to suppress a forest fire burning in California coastal mountains near a remote Buddhist monastery south of Big Sur. The Willow Fire grew minimally...
Vacaville, CA Prescribed Burn
Controlled burn and training Solana NewsNet May 26, 2021: Crews from the Vacaville Fire Department and nearby allied agencies set fire to dry vegetation on Callen Hill near Allison Drive on Wednesday as part of a controlled burn and training event ahead...
Burning Body Found at Ohio Brush Fire
Homicide in Franklin County COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The death of a woman whose burning body was found last week in a wooded area of a small central Ohio community has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. Firefighters responding to reports of a...
Monks Join Fight Against California’s Willow Fire
The monks train every year with professional firefighters BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — A group of firefighting monks was ready to defend a Buddhist monastery being threatened Tuesday by a wildfire burning in the rugged central coast mountains south of Big Sur....
Western Wildfires Force Evacuations, Shut Down Recreation
More large wildfires were burning in Arizona than anywhere else in the country By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A wildfire in northern Arizona crept closer to the region’s largest city Tuesday, threatening to force people from...
U.S. Wildfire Officials See Increasing Demand for Firefighters
47 large fires are currently burning across the U.S. By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. wildfire officials expecting increased fire activity and more demand for firefighters and equipment have raised the national preparedness to...
Calls to Increase Prescribed Burns Face Obstacles
"The program has to last forever." By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In the 1950s, when University of California forestry professor Harold Biswell experimented with prescribed burns in the state's pine forests, many people thought he...
Arizona Feels Brunt of Wildfire Activity Across the U.S. West
More land has burned across Arizona so far to date By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Dozens of wildfires were burning in hot, dry conditions across the U.S. West, including a blaze touched off by lightning that was moving toward...
California Firefighters Work to Contain the Willow Fire
Willow Fire burns in rugged terrain south of Big Sur BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — California’s weather began cooling Monday after a lengthy heat wave but firefighters still faced the difficult task of trying to contain a large forest fire in rugged coastal...