Wildfire destroyed 24 homes By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The state of Nevada has reached a tentative settlement with dozens of homeowners and insurance companies that filed an $80 million negligence lawsuit after a fire destroyed 24...
Decrease in number of deployments annually led to decision to keep current model By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An effort to develop a better fire shelter following the deaths of 19 wildland firefighters in Arizona six years ago has...
Financial assistance would have been available to harden homes SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California legislative committee has stripped the $1 billion in funding from a bill to protect homes against wildfire through home improvements. The Assembly...
USFS and CAL FIRE team up for training Stephanie Schmieding, ActionNewsNow REDDING, Calif. (ActionNewsNow) - Starting Monday, firefighters will learn how to supervise air attacks during a training in Redding. The U.S. Forest Service is teaming up with...
Project would cover over 200 square miles in the Sacramento Mountains By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Environmentalists say the U.S. government must go back to the drawing board or risk violating federal laws if it moves...
Captain Brian Hughes was killed while battling the Ferguson Fire in Yosemite By ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A firefighter who was struck and killed by a falling tree during a California wildfire last year had finished a 32-hour...
Newsom said he's never seen a realistic proposal for how to do it By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A desire to live near nature is embedded in California's ethos, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday as he explained why he doesn't...
Prescribed burn to maintain vegetation CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service for the first time in recent history oversaw the burning of more than 10,000 acres this year in southern Illinois' Shawnee National Forest. Fire management officer...
Training burns in California FirePhotoGirl - Region 5 Inter-Agency Dozer Training Burns. Burns are duel purpose, both for training and fuel mitigation. Location in Los Flores area South of Hesperia. www.FirePhotoGirl.com Like • Comment • Share Follow me...
More than 2.7 million live in very high fire hazard severity zones By RYAN SABALOW, PHILLIP REESE and DALE KASLER The Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — Impoverished towns in the shadow of Mount Shasta. Rustic Gold Rush cities in the Sierra...
Landmark 2008 building code made a difference in California By DALE KASLER and PHILLIP REESE The Sacramento Bee PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — The sky was turning orange and the embers were flying from the Camp Fire when Oney and Donna Carrell and Donna's...
Blackfeet Nation David Burdeau - Chief Mountain Hotshots R-1 wildland firefighters Blackfeet Nation Browning, Montana More about Chief Mountain IHC https://youtu.be/5od-dM-iisU
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