by Web Editor | Aug 14, 2013 | News, News/PR
Recent rainfall and humidity helped firefighters working on several Oregon wildfires, known as the Douglas Complex fires, Friday and Saturday, and the complex is now 48 percent contained, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry. Some parts of the 44,411-acre...
by Web Editor | Aug 12, 2013 | News, News/PR
Weeks after a backcountry blaze, the Yarnell Fire, killed 19 Arizona firefighters, the discomfiting question lingers like acrid smoke: What went wrong? How did the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a professional crew schooled in the safety-first mentality, become trapped...
by Web Editor | Aug 9, 2013 | News, News/PR
Firefighters say the wildfire burning in the rugged San Jacinto mountain range in Southern California some 90 miles east of Los Angeles, known as the Silver Fire, is one of the fastest moving they’ve seen in 50 years. It started Wednesday and spread to 25 square...
by Web Editor | Aug 7, 2013 | News, News/PR
The terrain at one Oregon wildfire is so forbidding and the vegetation so dry that veteran firefighters expect it to grow more than fivefold and burn until autumn — unless there’s rain in the meantime. The area of the Big Windy fire centered 25 miles northwest...
by Web Editor | Aug 5, 2013 | News, News/PR
While a debate about hydraulic fracturing in Ohio state forests recently has been in the news, attendees at an Ohio Department of Natural Resources regional open house in Chillicothe on Wednesday wanted to talk primarily about logging activity in the forests. The open...
by Web Editor | Aug 2, 2013 | News, News/PR
With the five largest fires burning in Douglas and Josephine counties having grown to more than 35,000 acres, southwest Oregon now has the dubious distinction of being the nation’s wildfire hot spot. More than 3,500 firefighters from throughout Oregon and around...
