While somerelief may finally be in sight by weekend,there are still reports of brush fires breaking out across areas, including the Hudson Valley. Areas inOrange, Dutchess and Ulster have already experienced wildfires, and now what is being described as a "major fire" has broken out in Rockla...
"We'll be paying close attention to today as the day progresses," said Oke. At the moment, he said, provincial crews have the resources they need to contain the fires. With no fires currently burning in Newfoundland, the province's...
1871, Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin (Gess and Lutz2003). Named fire events are mostly useful to managers responding to particular conflagrations whereas ecologists tend to describe large fire years. The fires of October 8, 1871, for example, famously ...
which puts them at risk of experiencing, or even starting a fire. This also makes it difficult for fire management officials to set controlled burns—which mitigate the build-up of vegetation or fuel—in the WUI because there’s a high likelihood that homes would be lost if the burn spirals...
After many years of study, California officials are expected to vote today — Tuesday — to allow household wastewater to be recycled and reused in the home, including for drinking. It’s a concept that was once derided by critics as “toilet to tap” but ...
camp fire death toll at 86; 3 people still missing share via close extra sharing options multiple fires are raging throughout california, forcing evacuations and leaving a destructive path. the camp fire in northern california’s butte county has killed at lea...
Surveyors maps and descriptions show that the extent of tall forest in the upper Clutha dis trict was almost the same at the beginning of Euro pean settlement in the 1850s as it is today. Since the 1850s fires in nonforest vegetation have burnt up to forest boundaries, but in the one ...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters battled two large wildfires Friday that threatened to merge near the most populated part of Oregon, including the suburbs of Portland, and the governor said dozens of people are missing in other parts of the s
The other out-of-control fire in the area, at Bush Creek East, has a 32-personnel crew and accompanying resources attacking it today, said Shantz. This fire is 310 hectares in size. Further updates will come later this afternoon.
In Alamo, near Stone Valley Road, a house fire allegedly spread into a brush fire. Drivers could see the blaze and smoke from I-680. The fire caused major damage to the three-story home where it started. ALSO: Rapidly spreading brush fire burning in Pittsburg In Marin County, crews have...