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...
Reward Offered in Nakia Creek (OR) Fire Investigation
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...
These Overgrown CA Forests Will Be Thinned with New Wildfire Funds From Feds
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...
Forest Service Hiring for Wildland Firefighter Positions
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...
Boulder County (CO) Works to Consolidate Evacuation Maps on One Site Following Sunshine Wildland Fire Confusion
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...
Cause of Marshall Fire Still Undetermined — Nearly One Year Later
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...
Pinelands to Lose 2.4M Trees in ‘Smart’ Fire Prevention Plan but NJ Activists Don’t Buy It
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...
‘We got really lucky’: Why CA Escaped Another Destructive Fire Season in 2022
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...
CBS’ New CA Wildfire Show ‘Fire Country’ Is So Bad That Cal Fire Disavowed It
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...
Experiment Captures Data on CA’s Most Dangerous Wildfires
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...
Crete (NE) Firefighter Burned Over 20% of His Body in Wildfire
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...
OR Firefighter Was Killed by Green, Live Tree
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...