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A bipartisan coalition of Western U.S. lawmakers has renewed a call to change how the federal government pays to put out big forest fires. Currently,...
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The devastating Valley Fire is believed to have been caused by an improperly wired hot tub. Four people were killed and more than 1,300 homes were destroyed in last year's blaze.
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Firefighters have made significant progress containing the Soberanes Fire, north of Big Sur, and the Pilot Fire, east of LA. However, the Mineral Fire, in Fresno County, seared 5,000 acres overnight.
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The study finds, in many cases, amounts barely higher than government guidelines allow, but significant levels in 66 water supplies. The chemicals are very persistent once in the environment.
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Tuesday’s high winds set two major new fires raging in Washington state. One ripped across grassy eastern Washington flats near Moses Lake and the other...
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The Range 12 Fire in southeast Washington has destroyed some of the most sensitive shrub steppe habitat in the nation.
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Officials from the Hanford nuclear reservation and Energy Northwest have been meeting with fire managers in southeast Washington state Tuesday. The...
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A wildfire in southeast Washington has grown to 70,000 acres between Yakima and the Tri-Cities. More than 100 crew members are working to keep the Range...
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Several wildfires have broken out throughout Washington and Oregon this weekend after high heat, low humidity, and strong winds picked up.
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An animal control agency got a call from the sheriff's department about "a tortoise that was running down the street, and away from the fire zone."