by Web Editor | Mar 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
Despite the slowest start to a wildfire season in a decade, the head of the U.S. Forest Service said Tuesday his agency is preparing for another busy year, but with fewer firefighters. Late winter storms have helped bring more snow and rain to some parts of the...
by Web Editor | Jan 7, 2013 | News, News/PR
New Mexico firefighters are preparing for another dangerous and devastating fire season, now that the federal government’s long range forecast is calling for another warm, dry spring. It’s now been three years of severe drought for most of the state and...
by Web Editor | Oct 10, 2012 | News, News/PR
In the worst wildfire season on record, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service ran out of money to pay for firefighters, fire trucks and aircraft that dump retardant on monstrous flames. So officials did about the only thing they could: take money from...
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...
by Web Editor | Aug 27, 2012 | News, News/PR
A huge wildfire in California is just the latest destructive blaze to stretch resources across the West during a fire season that has been one of the worst in years. The fires have left some states with thin budgets to scramble to get people, planes, bulldozers and...
