By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A warm front swept springlike weather across a large swath of the country Sunday in what is usually one of the coldest months of the year, sending people out of their homes to enjoy the rare winter respite but...
Stephen Hagan - Gloucester Daily Times, Mass. Feb. 21—Cape Ann's fire departments have won a $131,000 state grant aimed at preventing and fighting wildfires. "It's for all of the Cape Ann towns," Gloucester Fire Chief Eric Smith said of the Massachusetts Department of...
Adrian Rodriguez - The Marin Independent Journal, Novato, Calif. Feb. 20—The Marin Municipal Water District is enlisting the services of county firefighters to help build a wildfire defense in the Mount Tamalpais watershed. Under a new agreement, the county's...
Members of the Snake River Hotshot crew monitor a prescribed fire near Roberts, Idaho. Austin Catlin/BLM Camille Stevens-Rumann, Colorado State University and Jude Bayham, Colorado State University A wet winter and spring followed by a hot, dry summer can be a...
Andrea Hancock The Norman Transcript, Okla. (TNS) Feb. 17—On Friday, the National Weather Center hosted the director of the National Weather Services to demonstrate an innovative partnership between Oklahoma meteorologists and Oklahoma Forestry Services. Since about...
Powerful winds have killed a man and brought widespread destruction across Australia’s second-most populous state, fanning fires that injured five firefighters.
Rachel Uranga - Los Angeles Times The couple whose pyrotechnics during a gender-reveal party set off what came to be known as the massive El Dorado fire in San Bernardino County in 2020 was sentenced Friday after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors. The couple...
By Vyto Babrauskas How do houses burn down? There are two main ways: from an internal ignition source and from an external ignition source. Building codes focus primarily on protecting houses from internal ignition sources, but wildfires—forest fires, vegetation...
Emma Epperly - The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Feb. 6—The Gray fire that devastated Medical Lake in August was caused by sparks from an Inland Power and Light security light mounted to a pole, a Department of Natural Resources investigation found. Multiple...
Gabrielle Porter - The Santa Fe New Mexican Feb. 5—What does it take to build a Hotshot firefighting crew from the ground up? How about two of them? New Mexico officials are about to find out. The State Forestry Division, part of the Energy, Minerals and Natural...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Firefighters wrestled Sunday with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile two days earlier, as officials extended curfews in cities most heavily affected by the blazes and said at least 112 people had been killed. The fires burned...
Sam Stanton - The Sacramento Bee A criminal justice professor who has worked at various California colleges pleaded guilty Thursday after being charged with setting a series of blazes near the massive Dixie Fire in 2021. Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, pleaded guilty to...
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