Blake Nelson - The San Diego Union-Tribune The firefighter pulled the black hose down a hill. “Good?” she called out. “All the way down,” a voice responded. Brea Kirklen kept walking. Below her were the remnants of a homeless encampment in a small canyon by San...
David Garrick - The San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego has been slow to revamp how it monitors and removes flammable brush on city-owned land, despite a 2023 audit saying the city’s efforts are poorly coordinated and not comprehensive enough. Brush management is...
Thomas Curwen - Los Angeles Times Not quite six years ago, wildfire expert Jack Cohen, who lives in Missoula, Mont., visited Pacific Palisades to instruct firefighters and property owners on how to protect homes against wildfires. Three days of training, including a...
Grace Toohey -Los Angeles Times Officials said they are making progress in protecting two key institutions from the Eaton fire. Don Fregulia, an operations section chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which has joined in the Eaton fire...
Andrea Grajeda Colorado Hometown Weekly (TNS) Dec. 18—Louisville has reviewed how the 2023 approval of the open space tax increase has helped open space management and wildfire mitigation. During the Tuesday Louisville City Council meeting, Open Space...
NATHAN PORCENG - The Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. — This story first appeared in New York Focus, a non-profit news publication investigating New York state politics. Sign up for their stories at nysfocus.com/newsletter. Joseph Nickischer can’t remember...
Grace Toohey - Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — In a matter of hours, the Mountain fire charged rapidly across the Santa Susana Mountains and into nearby foothill neighborhoods, forcing widespread evacuations and demanding intense firefights from crews showered in...
Clara Harter, Noah Haggerty, Jired Deng and Sandra McDonald - Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Firefighters were struggling to contain a fast-moving Ventura County wildfire on Thursday that had destroyed numerous homes — and the dangerous winds fueling those flames...
Clara Harter - Los Angeles Times Because of unusually strong winds, the National Weather Service has issued a rare Particularly Dangerous Situation red flag warning for wide swaths of L.A. County and southwest California, stretching from late Tuesday through Thursday....
Sarah Linn - Merced Sun-Star (Merced, Calif.) (TNS) Parts of Northern California were under a red flag warning as of Thursday, Oct. 17, putting the region at higher risk for wildfires. Gusty winds up to 55 mph were expected to sweep the region. “This combined with low...
The Bismarck Tribune, N.D. Wildfire concerns are mounting in North Dakota again, with breezy conditions and little rain in the forecast this week. Meanwhile, the 2024 growing season has officially come to an end in the region. Wind gusts in the western and central...
Daniel Hunt - The Sacramento Bee As California braced for critical fire conditions starting Thursday afternoon, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officials said a quick-moving storm that produced rain in some locations helped planners reduce the number of counties and...
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