Steven Mayer The Bakersfield Californian (TNS) Oct. 28—The physical training was rigorous, fighting fires in remote wilderness was dangerous, and jumping out of perfectly good airplanes in the vicinity of burning forest and brush fires may have been a tad crazy. But...
Emily Holshouser - Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif. Oct. 26—Gusty Santa Ana winds and dry conditions spelling heightened wildfire danger are forecast for Southern California starting Saturday night and continuing into early next week, according to the National...
Tristan Baurick - The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate Oct. 23—Firefighters hope flooding a New Orleans East swamp will finally put out a fire that has cast noxious-smelling smoke over the city and combined with fog to snarl traffic and may have contributed...
Colleen Heild - Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Oct. 23—In the summer of 2022, Jimmy and Linda Cummings traveled to one of their favorite places on earth, in the forest of northern New Mexico. Linda's mother, Betty Greenhaw, 84, went along for the annual summer trip to the...
Jaclyn Cosgrove Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Volunteer brigades will help their neighbors prepare for wildfires and other disasters in an area devastated by the 2018 Woolsey fire as part of a new program approved by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. At...
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric — one of the nation's largest utilities whose equipment has sparked some of California's deadliest wildfires — wants to bury power lines in some of its most at-risk areas to prevent...
Andrew Gomes The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (TNS) Oct. 15—The company, in its wildfire mitigation plan produced in January and filed with the PUC Oct. 2, said it took up a proactive approach to such risk based on devastating California wildfires in 2018 and its own...
Gillian Brassil - McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Nearly five years ago, Congress told the U.S. Air Force to convert seven surplus Coast Guard aircraft into firefighting tankers for California’s fire protection agency. It never finished the job. Now,...
PK Hattis - Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif. Oct. 11—SANTA CRUZ — Fire crews, decked out in bright yellow suits and helmets to match, dotted the parched meadowland at Wilder Ranch State Park Wednesday, methodically igniting light brown blankets of grass with orange flame...
JUST IN: Shocking footage of fast-moving wildfires approaching Villa Carlos Paz in Argentina right now pic.twitter.com/ROB9Q6mXnN — Anonymous (@YourAnonOne) October 10, 2023 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Dozens of people were evacuated from their homes in...
George Avalos - The Mercury News OAKLAND, Calif. — PG&E is facing the prospect of a state penalty and fines in connection with a huge and destructive wildfire that the utility caused in Northern California, regulators said Monday. The state Public Utilities...
Will Houston The Marin Independent Journal, Novato, Calif. (TNS) Oct. 8—Compared to recent catastrophic wildfire seasons in California, this one has been relatively mild. Just a few small ignitions have occurred in Marin County, and only 303,000 acres have burned...
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