Donald W. Meyers - Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jun. 5—When a fire burned along the east side of the Yakima River last week, about thousands people in the Yakima area lost power. It was not a result of power damage, but a Pacific Power policy to turn off power lines...
Hayley Smith Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — As the threat of wildfire worsens in California and across the world, a growing number of federal agencies, nonprofit organizations and tech companies are racing to deploy new technology that will help combat flames...
By MARCEL HONORE, Honolulu Civil Beat HONOLULU (AP) — More than 48,000 Hawaiian Electric Co. customers living in some of the state’s driest areas will soon face the prospect of advance power shutoffs — and outages that could last several days — in order to...
Chloe Jones - The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) May 28—Santa Barbara County has issued an evacuation warning for residents in eastern Santa Barbara County as a hillside wildfire burned hundreds of acres in the area. The fire began around 12 p.m. southeast of New...
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — A Yuma man has been arrested for allegedly starting a wildfire in a national wildlife preserve in southwest Arizona near the California border, according to authorities. Yuma County Sheriff’s officials said 47-year-old Jason Bradley Martin remains...
Nina Wu - The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (TNS) GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARADVERTISER.COM The U.S. Forest Service is awarding more than $5.6 million in grants to Hawaii for wildfire preparation and prevention. The funding is available through the Community Wildfire...
Daniel Hunt - The Sacramento Bee Authorities have made an arrest after a wildfire was touched off Wednesday evening in a rugged part of Butte County spared from Camp Fire more than five years ago. Firefighters made quick work of the Ranch Fire, a 10-acre blaze that...
May 9, 2024 11:22 PM - 236 words Associated Press WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — Nine months after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century struck Maui, Mayor Richard Bissen says the county will hire an outside expert to assess how its emergency management agency...
The owner of a company that provided fuel truck services to the U.S. Forest Service's wildland firefighters pleaded guilty to bid-rigging. Ike Tomlinson, 60, of Terreton, admitted to conspiring to monopolize, rig bids, and allocate territories, violating Sections 1...
Odessa American, Texas May 7—AUSTIN — Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to deploy additional state emergency response resources ahead of increased wildfire danger in the Panhandle and West Texas. "Following the...
Nikki Davidson - Government Technology May 6—Human perception has its limits against the unpredictability of a wildfire start. But with artificial intelligence beginning to play a key role in response, the question becomes: Could AI outperform humans in determining...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Had emergency responders known about widespread cellphone outages during the height of last summer's deadly Maui wildfires, they would have used other methods to warn about the disaster, county officials said...
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