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One of the first US 'crazies'
Missoula :: MT :: USA | about 10 hours ago
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Cooley, one of the first two men to parachute from an aircraft to fight a forest fire in what has become a well-used practice in the United States, has died in Missoula, Montana...The lines of Cooley's parachute tangled on that first jump on July 12,...
Tags: EARL Cooley, US Forest Service, smoke jumper, Montana University, Montanans, Missoula, Smokejumper, Wildfire, Firefighting, Aerial firefighting, Parachute, Wildland fire suppression, Parachuting, Firefighting in the United States
Valley fireplace use down; bad air still on rise
Fresno :: CA :: USA | about 17 hours ago
Credibility It's an odd twist because the wood-burning bans have improved air quality around Thanksgiving and the winter holidays in Fresno and Bakersfield. Yet the year-round average level of the microscopic debris -- called PM-2.5, which is linked with lung problems,...
Tags: Valley, air officials, officials say, ammonium nitrate, Fresno, Environment, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, Air pollution, Smoke, Wildfire, Wood fuel, Chemical engineering, Smog, Disaster Accident, Air dispersion modeling
Southern Calif. brush fire contained
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 23 hours ago
Credibility A wind-whipped Southern California brush fire was fully contained Thursday, but firefighters beefed up units because of the warm, dry weather forecast. The blaze, which broke out Tuesday night in Anaheim Hills, 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles, was initially...
Tags: Los Angeles, Environment, Wildfire, Firefighting, Anaheim Hills Anaheim California, Wildland fire suppression, Anaheim California, Disaster Accident
A fast-spreading wildfire erupts in Lincoln County
Denver :: CO :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Only one structure is threatened so far, said Richard Bailey, a dispatcher for the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department. The fire started around 10 a.m. and spread quickly mostly in grass pastures, Bailey said. Within about 20-minutes the size of the fire...
Tags: Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, fire departments, Richard Bailey, Denver, Wildfire, Volunteer fire department, Firefighter, Disaster Accident, Law Crime
Firefighters battle Rotorua forest blaze (NZPA)
Rotorua :: New Zealand | 1 day ago
Credibility Eight fire appliances were trying to contain the blaze, which started about 2pm, along Hamurana Rd, on the north side of Lake Rotorua, fire communications senior communicator Mau Barbara said.
Tags: Lake Rotorua, New Zealand, Rotorua, Environment, Wildfire, Firefighter, Disaster Accident
Burning Truck Sparks Small Brush Fire Off I-15
Bonsall :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility A pickup truck caught fire on Interstate 15, and flames spread into the brush, burning about three acres Wednesday, authorities said. The fire broke out about 12:45 p.m. along northbound lanes north of Gopher Canyon Road, according to the California Highway...
Tags: Bonsall, Wildfire, Ecological succession, Wildland fire suppression, Disaster Accident, Occupational safety and health
Fire near Sunnyside spread needlessly, several say at meeting
Sunnyside :: WA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Yakima County — Firefighters told one man with a water tank he couldn't proceed to his restaurant to protect it from approaching flames...No one stopped a man who drove down a smoke-covered highway, where he ran off the road and died of what was believed...
Tags: Sunnyside, Sunnyside Houston, Wildfire, Firefighting, Wildland fire suppression, Firefighter, Disaster Accident, Occupational safety and health
City should remain loyal to county fire department
Thousand Oaks :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility It’s had the smell of a witch hunt from the beginning, and I fear the main effort is to shift millions of dollars of public spending to the direct control of the council and could be subject to ever deeper graft, waste and corruption. We live in an extremely...
Tags: fire department, county fire, Thousand Oaks, Wildfire, Firefighter, Disaster Accident
NASA aircraft flies California wildfire
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., was carried in a pod under the aircraft's wing. The scanner operates like a digital camera with specialized filters to detect light energy at visible,...
Tags: Southern California, NASA Dryden, Ikhana, U.S. Forest Service, modular scanner, autonomous modular, california wildfire, BAER, Los Angeles, Environment, Wildfire, Ecological succession, Edwards Air Force Base, Mountain View California, MQ-9 Reaper, Wildland fire suppression, Technology Internet, Disaster Accident, Occupational safety and health, NASA Ames Research Center
Progress made on fire; toll lanes open
Anaheim :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility With winds gusting up to 53 mph, the blaze broke out just before 10 p.m. Tuesday near the Windy Ridge Toll Plaza. "It seemed to have laid down over night," said Capt. Greg McKeown of the Orange County Fire Authority. "It's kind of just slowly burning.
Tags: Southern California, Anaheim Hills, Orange County Fire Authority, Southern Calif., Anaheim, Disaster Accident, Anaheim Hills Anaheim California, Wildfire, Santa Ana winds, Winds, Climate of California, Firefighter, Anaheim California, Environment, Firebreak, OCFA, Weather, Orange California, Anaheim Fire Department, Orange County California, Fire apparatus, California State Route 241, Firefighting, Santa Ana California, Wildland fire suppression, California wildfires
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