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Firefighters Battle Australia Bush Fires

More than 1,500 firefighters were battling 55 fires across New South Wales.

News • November 26th, 2002

Dispute rages over increase of wildfires in West

News • November 24th, 2002

Brush Fire in Yorba Linda, CA Misses Homes

Erratic, fast-moving brush fire could have caused much more damage than it did.

News • November 22nd, 2002

Report: Sexual Harassment Claims Plague Forest Service

Women employees of the USDA Forest Service in California say that repeated lawsuits and complaints have done little to stop sexual harassment on the job and as a result, taxpayers dollars are being wasted.

News • November 22nd, 2002

Threat of Strong Yorba Linda, CA Winds Have Firefighters Working Fast

Firefighter injured. She was airlifted to UC Irvine Medical Center to be treated.

News • November 21st, 2002

Southern Calif. Officials Issue Fire Warning

Winds of more than 25 mph blew through the region, and humidity was less than 15%.

News • November 20th, 2002

SWI Fire Protection In Boston: Past & Present

Within its city limits, Boston contains an estimated 4,000 acres of wildlands in the form of parks, woods, grass and brush lands which also includes the harbor islands.

News • November 20th, 2002

Santa Ana, Calif. Winds Fan Fire Fears

Fire officials are expected to declare an extreme fire danger in San Diego County because of a combination of winds and warm, dry weather.

News • November 19th, 2002

Dry Conditions, High Winds Fuel Ark. Wildfires

Crews in four different counties battled wildfires Monday as high winds and dry conditions complicated efforts to contain the blazes.

News • November 18th, 2002

Prevention Would Aid Firefighting

A study of six major wildfires in 2001 found that the federal government could save money by fighting forest fires more effectively, but could save much more by thinning forests and taking other preventative measures.

News • November 15th, 2002

Panel Releases First Report on Colorado's Largest Wildfire

High winds, a drought and low moisture in trees fueled the 137,759-acre Hayman fire.

News • November 14th, 2002

Road Blamed in Fatal California Firefighter Accident

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Bad road conditions and driver inexperience contributed to an accident that killed three firefighters this summer, a U.S. Forest Service investigation found.

News • October 30th, 2002

The Indian Fire - Prescott, Arizona

This was another beautiful sunny, warm and breezy day in the Prescott area. The fire danger rating was at the top of the scale and registered as "EXTREME."

News • October 28th, 2002

Aerial Firefighters Pledge Reform

The aerial firefighting industry promised reforms Thursday to help prevent a repeat of this summer, when two aging air tankers crashed fighting wildfires in California and Colorado, killing five people.

News • October 25th, 2002

History Channel Documentary Investigates the Storm King Mt. Tragedy

Fire On The Mountain is a riveting documentary investigating the death of the 14 firefighters killed in 1994 on Storm King Mountain in Colorado, one of the worst disasters in U.S. wildfire history.

News • October 25th, 2002

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