Sean Golightly - The Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff Jan. 27—U.S. Forest Service officials from the Flagstaff Ranger District presented proposed fire restriction changes to the Coconino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday and were met with the general support. The...
Jessica Prokop - The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. The Clark County Fire Marshal's Office and Crime Stoppers of Oregon are offering a reward for suspect information in the investigation into the cause of the Nakia Creek Fire. The fire marshal's office is asking the...
Gillian Brassil - McClatchy Washington Bureau More California forests stand to benefit from the United States Forest Service’s wildfire prevention strategy. The 10-year plan — pushed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Forest Service — intends to...
Red Bluff Daily News, Calif. Jan. 18—The Forest Service is hiring for Wildland Firefighter positions hiring, permanent and seasonal, hand crews, engine crews, hotshot crews position and will host two in-person hiring events next week to interview applicants. According...
Mitchell Byars - Colorado Hometown Weekly Jan. 7—Boulder County agencies are working on making sure all evacuation maps for natural disasters are on one site after confusion during the county's most recent wildfire. The Sunshine Wildland Fire started on Dec. 19 as a...
Carol Mckinley - The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) Dec. 15—The cause of Colorado's most destructive wildfire won't be known until early next year, the Boulder County Sheriff announced in a news release Thursday. The Marshall fire tore through...
Steven Rodas - nj.com A new plan to cut as many as 2.4 million small trees from a dense section of the New Jersey Pinelands as part of wildfire mitigation efforts by the state has drawn criticism from some officials and environmental advocates. The...
Hayley Smith - Los Angeles Times Despite months of warnings fueled by extreme heat and drought-desiccated conditions, California's deadly fire season ended with remarkably little area burned, with just 362,403 acres scorched in 2022, compared with more than 2.5...
Katie Dowd – SFGate, San Francisco Oct. 25—The first 30 minutes of CBS’ new primetime drama “Fire Country” are enough to give any Californian a bad feeling about the direction of the show. As a raging wildfire bears down on a town, three characters find themselves...
Jack Lee – San Francisco Chronicle Oct. 27—Canyon wildfires produce some of the most challenging conditions for fire crews working to suppress blazes. Steep inclines in hard-to-reach areas can make it extremely difficult for firefighters to get to the flames. On top...
Andrew Wegley – Lincoln Journal Star, Neb. Oct. 25—KRAMER — Though the full extent of the damage caused by a pair of Sunday wildfires in southern Lancaster County remained unclear Monday, officials emphasized that the quick actions of scores of firefighters and area...
Vickie Aldous - Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. Oct. 28—Firefighter Logan Taylor was killed this summer at the Rum Creek Fire site by a green, live tree that may have been weakened by a past fire — a warning that forests have more hidden dangers in today's era of...
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