Posted: Jan 1, 2024 Slug: NMG-Fireworks-over-New-Years-holiday-likely-sparked-ma Anthony Mcauley and Chelsea Shannon The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate (TNS) Jan. 1—Firefighters in St. Tammany Parish battled a Slidell-area marsh fire authorities...
Lynzie Lowe The Reporter, Vacaville, Calif. Dec. 21—Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced Wednesday completion of more than 600 miles of underground powerlines within its service region since 2021 as part of their 10,000-Mile Undergrounding program. The...
Gillian Brassil - The Sacramento Bee WASHINGTON — California is a step closer to getting long-promised firefighting aircraft in the air. The state and its fire protection agency will have to get them into shape, but the first of the seven C-130 aircraft could be in...
Nicole Blanchard - The Idaho Statesman Two Idaho men have been charged with federal fraud and conspiracy charges after an alleged scheme to rig contract prices for firefighting equipment used by the U.S. Forest Service. In a news release Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s...
Ed Booth Chico Enterprise-Record, Calif. Dec. 14—SACRAMENTO — With undisputable benefits to the environment, chief among them causing the retention of water in the landscape, beavers have proven value to nature. So, what's the best way to replicate those benefits?...
Adam Wagner - The Charlotte Observer Crews are continuing to fight a pair of wildfires in western North Carolina. Heavy rains over the weekend helped U.S. Forest Service firefighter crews in their battle against the blazes, which are often taking place in steep...
Mary Callahan - The Press Democrat Dec. 12—Scientists at Stanford University have revealed yet another reason to be alarmed by exposure to wildfire smoke and the ash and dust left behind by high intensity fires. It turns out that catastrophic wildfires like those...
Andrew Khouri - Los Angeles Times Ventura County firefighters continued to make steady progress Sunday in their battle against a 2,900-acre fire near the town of Somis, California, lifting previous evacuation orders. The so-called South fire, which was first reported...
Amanda Zhou - The Seattle Times Dec. 7—A new study from Oregon State University estimates that wildfire and drought caused $11.2 billion in economic losses to privately owned timberland in California, Oregon and Washington over the past two decades. The study, which...
Ted Sickinger - oregonlive.com Electricity provider PacifiCorp has agreed to pay $299 million to victims of the 2020 wildfires in southern Oregon to end a lawsuit that could have cost it far more. PacifiCorp’s decision to settle comes after the utility lost a similar...
Hayley Smith - Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES -- On a cool, cloudy morning one day last week, Albert Rivas approached a pile of dry wood in the Angeles National Forest and set it on fire. The pile roared to life, and within minutes, it was spewing flames at least 10...
Tristan Baurick - The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Dec. 4—The months-long battle against hundreds of wildfires across Louisiana has made clear that the state is ill-prepared for hotter, drier summers producing multiple simultaneous blazes that ravage...
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