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  • When Idaho Wildfires Heat Up, Who Ya Gonna Call? NIFC

    With the arrival of summer weather, and the threat of wildfire hanging over a parched Great Basin, the National Interagency Fire Center next to the Boise Airport looks strangely calm from a distance

    News • June 9th, 2003

  • Feds: Thin Sierras to Ease Fire Threat

    A Forest Service study suggests that accelerated logging in the Sierra Nevada is the best way to ease fire threats, protect wildlife, create jobs and ultimately have more old-growth forests a century from now.

    News • June 6th, 2003

  • Winds Blow Smoke From California Peat Moss Fire

    -- Smoke from a small fire burning in Solano County Thursday traveled well into the Central Valley

    News • June 6th, 2003

  • 13-Year-Old Girls Arrested For Allegedly Starting Brushfire

    Three 13-year-old girls have been arrested by the San Diego Metro Arson Strike Team for allegedly starting a brushfire in a canyon in Serra Mesa.

    News • June 6th, 2003

  • In Fight Against Wildfires, High-Tech Tools Rely on Early Detection

    It was 2 a.m. when Davis Fire Crew Leader David Provencio and his lone band, having finished cutting line around a 2-acre fire and searching for any signs of smolder, reclined beneath the glowing stars.

    News • June 5th, 2003

  • California Firefighters Get New Airbase to Help Battle Wildfires

    U.S. Forest Service officials will gather at the Chester airport today to dedicate an air tanker and helicopter base, the agency's newest facility to help manage wildland fires.

    News • June 5th, 2003

  • Utah's 'Prescribed' Burns on Hold

    Federal and state agencies have postponed prescribed burns on thousands of acres in Utah because of drought-dry fuels and concern that any fire -- even a contained, intentionally set burn -- could become an uncontrolled wildfire.

    News • June 4th, 2003

  • California Air Tankers Grounded

    Once mainstays of the nation's aerial firefighting force, two C-130 tankers have been exiled this summer, and maybe permanently, to their dusty perches at a rural Tulare County airstrip.

    News • June 3rd, 2003

  • Pennsylvania Officials Searching for Cause of Blue Mountain Blaze

    Investigators are continuing efforts to track down witnesses to a forest fire that scorched 33 acres of Blue Mountain in Washington Township, Lehigh County.

    News • June 3rd, 2003

  • Winds Aid Alaskan Fire Crews

    A wildfire that threatened to overrun the Tok Cutoff and drive people from their homes over the weekend was slowed Sunday by favorable winds, giving at least 200 firefighters a chance to build breaks and hold a line, said state and federal fire...

    News • June 3rd, 2003

  • Colorado Wants Fire-Starter to Pay $27M

    State prosecutors say a former Forest Service employee who started Colorado's largest wildfire owes $27.5 million to residents who lost their homes or suffered other damages.

    News • June 3rd, 2003

  • Fire & Rescue Authority Gets ATV's

    The Durango Fire & Rescue Authority recently added four new tools to its stock of equipment to fight wildfires, and it has the community to thank

    News • June 2nd, 2003

  • Fire Burns 2,000 Acres in California

    California's wildfire season officially opens Monday, but flames arrived early in San Joaquin County, where a fast-moving grass fire burned more than 2,000 acres.

    News • June 2nd, 2003

  • Wildfire Season Begins Today, California Hires 1,500 Seasonal firefighters

    The official declaration from the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection signals the hiring of 1,500 seasonal firefighters and heightened vigilance in all areas of the state except in the extreme north. Fire permits may be suspended in some...

    News • June 2nd, 2003

  • Fire Burns 2,000 Acres in California

    California's wildfire season officially opens Monday, but flames arrived early in San Joaquin County, where a fast-moving grass fire burned more than 2,000 acres.

    News • June 2nd, 2003

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