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...
Scott Wyland - The Santa Fe New Mexican Nov. 30—The Interior Department estimates it spent more than $7 million in the 2023 fiscal year to support prescribed burns and thinning on almost 64,000 acres in New Mexico. The funding to improve what the agency calls wildfire...
Sam Stanton - The Sacramento Bee The second day of proceedings in the Caldor Fire court case continued Wednesday with an investigator describing some of the severe injuries victims experienced during the blaze, part of an effort to buttress charges against the...
Tristan Baurick - The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Nov. 29—The long-running swamp fire in New Orleans East has convinced the city's emergency responders that more training and equipment are needed to deal with what's expected to be more frequent and...
Peter Boylan - The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Nov. 28—Three Maui County departments were served subpoenas Monday after not meeting the timelines with a state investigation into their response to the Aug. 8 wildfires that killed 100, left 7, 500 homeless and caused $5.5...
El Cajon, California - November 20: New Sheriffs Department helicopters were shown during a press conference on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023 in El Cajon, California. The BELL 412EPX cost more than $15 million and the BELL 407GXi cost $5.5 million. (Ana Ramirez / The San...
Nov. 20—TACOMA — Washingtonians will be able to show their appreciation for forests — and the people who protect them — if a new custom license plate is approved, according to an announcement from state Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz. The plate, depicting...
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