by Web Editor | Jul 27, 2018 | News, News/PR
Despite hot, dry conditions, wildland fire crews wrangled 18 percent containment in the Garner Complex, which reached 19,944 acres Wednesday, fire officials said. The complex declared a conflagration by the governor last week comprises fires started by lightning on...
by Web Editor | Jun 25, 2018 | News, News/PR
PG&E Corp. will record $2.5 billion in pre-tax expenses in the second quarter related to wildfires in California, the electric utility said on Thursday, two weeks after state officials blamed its power lines for sparking the fires. Wall Street analysts said...
by Web Editor | Aug 31, 2016 | News, News/PR
A federal lawsuit stemming from a 65,000-acre fire in Central Washington last summer challenges the U.S. Forest Service’s authority to suspend environmental laws and take emergency actions during a wildfire. A Eugene-based environmental group, Forest Service Employees...
by Web Editor | Aug 5, 2016 | News, News/PR
An abandoned, illegal campfire sparked the Soberanes Fire that has scorched more than 67-square miles of Monterey County and killed one person, state fire officials announced Tuesday. The campfire was about 2-feet by 2-feet and burning away from official hiking trails...
by Web Editor | Apr 18, 2016 | News, News/PR
The Nebraska Forest Service has a new interactive tool that should help improve efforts to fight future wildfires. For just about a month, the agency has been using new computer simulation tables that show how a wildfire in a given area is projected to behave, and how...