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  • N.M. Report Calls For Changes to Wildland Fire Strategy

    Major changes are sought in fire management strategy as outlined in a New Mexico report on two catastrophic wildfires last year.

    News • April 3rd, 2013

  • More Than a Dozen Wildfires Burn in Central Fla.

    Several fires are reported west of Orlando in the Kissimmee area and Orange and Seminole counties are at a very high risk for wildfires.

    News • April 1st, 2013

  • Boston Firefighters Find Burned Man Near Brush Fire

    Boston firefighters don't know a badly burned man ended up in the Muddy River near a brush fire on Saturday night.

    News • April 1st, 2013

  • Prescribed Burn Gets Out of Hand in Florida

    A prescribed burn flared out of control in the Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area and threatened about a dozen homes.

    News • March 30th, 2013

  • Fire Mitigation Efforts Paid Off For Colo. Community

    The Waldo Canyon fire last summer gave the forest service and other officials with Fire Adapted Communities a first glimpse of how long-established mitigation protects a neighborhood hit by wildfire.

    News • March 28th, 2013

  • S.C. Authorities Investigate Delay in Fire Response

    Horry County officials are trying to determine why it took three minutes to dispatch a call for a massive brush fire that claimed dozens of homes and displace nearly 200 residents.

    News • March 26th, 2013

  • OSHA Levies Fines in Idaho Forestry Firefighter LODD

    The fire management company has been cited for violations and fined by OSHA following a probe after the death of a U.S. Forest Service firefighter in Idaho last summer.

    News • February 14th, 2013

  • Mo. Assistant Chief Seriously Injured at Brush Fire
    Mo. Assistant Chief Seriously Injured at Brush Fire

    A Marshfield firefighter was injured Saturday after a branch from a burning tree fell on him.

    News • January 4th, 2012

  • Wildland Firefighter Jailed for Setting Calif. Fire

    RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. -- A U.S. Forest Service firefighter scheduled to start trial this week on arson charges accepted a plea agreement Monday. Daniel Mariano Madrigal was immediately sentenced to state prison after he accepted the deal, which...

    News • November 30th, 2011

  • Colorado Wildfire Contained; Evacuations Lifted

    BOULDER, Colo. -- Firefighters contained three wildfires in the foothills west of Boulder Saturday afternoon and evacuations were lifted for 160 homes. Reacting to high-fire conditions, including strong winds expected...

    News • November 13th, 2011

  • Calif. Residents Form Fire Preparedness Group

    POWAY, Calif. -- Members of one local community are taking extra steps to be prepared before another wildfire hits the region. The fires of 2003 and the Witch Fire of 2007 sent the county into a state of emergency and will forever be...

    News • November 10th, 2011

  • Esperanza Fire Remembered Five Years Later

    Family, friends and colleagues will gather today to remember the five firefighters killed by the Esperanza Fire in Cabazon, Calif.

    News • October 26th, 2011

  • San Diego Homes Are Still at Risk From Wildfires

    SAN DIEGO -- Four years after the devastating Witch Fire, some San Diego firefighters told 10News tens of thousands of homes are still at risk. On this day in 2007, smoke shrouded the sun as the Witch Fire destroyed more than 1,100 homes in...

    News • October 24th, 2011

  • Group Admits Mishandling Calif. Victim Funds

    SAN DIEGO -- Officials with the local chapter for Habitat for Humanity said on Tuesday that the organization made a mistake in handling donations for the 2007 wildfire victims. About $733,000 was raised but none of...

    News • October 19th, 2011

  • Texas Volunteers Recall Fighting Big Wildland Fire

    The Heart of the Pines Volunteer FD was right in the middle of the Bastrop County fire.

    News • October 12th, 2011

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