by Web Editor | May 30, 2014 | News, News/PR
The 2013 wildfire season in Idaho was one of the worst on record, with three massive fires destroying homes and forcing thousands of evacuations. According to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, the Pony, Elk, and Beaver Creek fires burned a total of nearly...
by Web Editor | Aug 21, 2013 | News, News/PR
An out-of-control forest fire threatening more than 2,000 structures near Yosemite National Park was one of more than 50 active, large wildfires dotting the western U.S. on Wednesday. The remote blaze in Stanislaus National Forest west of Yosemite grew to more than 25...
by Web Editor | Aug 19, 2013 | News, News/PR
When Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter met with U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell on Friday, Tidwell remarked at the fact that Idaho must have 14 million dead trees, which provides perfect fuel for severe wildfires. Governor Otter and Senator Jim Risch...
by Web Editor | May 13, 2013 | News, News/PR
Two small but unseasonably early wildfires burning in northern California’s wine country and another wind-whipped blaze farther south likely are a harbinger of a nasty summer fire season across the West. Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in...
by Web Editor | Sep 14, 2012 | News, News/PR
Across the West, high winds and temperatures exacerbated already dangerous fire conditions, prompting the National Weather Service to issue red-flag warnings for wide swaths of eastern Washington and Oregon, Idaho, Montana and all of Wyoming. Crews in central...