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More fire crew videos, fire season summaries
UPDATED January 1, 2013: added a video from the Wind Cave National Park fire organization. ============= Yesterday we posted two videos that hotshot crews produced which summarized their 2012 fire...
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Wildfire news, January 3, 2013
Firefighters patrol a smoky section of Highway 97 on the Wenatchee Complex Fire. Photo by Jim Timaselli, USFS Wenatchee residents endured heavy smoke The residents of Wenatchee, Washington were exposed...
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Report released on serious injury while suppressing fire aided by ropes
A facilitated learning analysis has been released for a serious injury that occurred while firefighters were taking suppression action on an extremely steep slope above the Columbia River Gorge on the...
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Investigators determine exploding targets caused 7,300-acre Goat Fire
U.S. Forest Service investigators have determined that target shooters using exploding targets caused the Goat Fire which burned 7,378 acres three miles southwest of Pateros, Washington (map) in...
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Spring season fire in Washington burns 100 acres.
Dog Mountain Fire, 5-6-2013, Washington DOT photo Since the Dog Mountain Fire about 30 miles southwest of Mt. Rainier in Washington (map) was reported May 4, 2013, it has burned approximately 100 acres...
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Wildfire briefing, June 28, 2013
Former volunteer firefighter sentenced for arson The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a former volunteer firefighter was sentenced to a total of two years in jail for setting fires in the northern...
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Washington: Colockum Tarps Fire
(UPDATE at 7:35 p.m. PDT, July 30, 2013) The Colockum Tarps Fire continued to spread to the south Tuesday, and according to the incident management team has now burned 59,316 acres. In the map of the...
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More Wildfire sports teams
In August we wrote about three football teams named “Wildfire”. Today we ran across someone talking about wildfire on Twitter and it turned out to be referring to what appears to be a girls’ hockey...
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Burlington Northern railroad settles million dollar lawsuit for burning homes
File photo of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train Railroads in the state of Washington get away with starting fires along their tracks because according to Joe Shramek, the Resource Protection Manager...
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Pile burning at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge
Taking advantage of the snow, the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge fire staff is catching up on their pile burning south of Cheney, Washington. Here we see the Engine Module Supervisor burning...
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Rare winter fires in the Oregon Coast Range
Heat detected in Washington and Oregon by a satellite at 1:08 p.m. PT, January 24, 2014 Rare winter fires are burning in Oregon’s Coast Range in areas that would normally be cold and wet much of the...
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Lightning map, Tuesday morning
The map shows the lightning strikes that were recorded in the western United States during the 24-hour period that ended at 6 a.m. MDT, August 12, 2014.
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Three men arrested for starting unauthorized backfire
Three men in Washington have been arrested and charged with arson for setting unauthorized backfires last month. The Spokesman-Review reported that firefighters told two of the men not to light the...
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Lake Roosevelt area hit by strong winds, wildfire, and 7-foot waves
Effects of the windstorm at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. NPS photo by Denise Bausch The staff at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area on the Columbia River (map) in northeast Washington...
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Wildfire briefing, September 12, 2014
Three homes damaged in Washington wildfire A fire near White Salmon, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge damaged three residences Thursday afternoon. The spread of the Copper Fire was stopped at 10...
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Wednesday morning one-liners
Engine rollover, Warm Springs, Oregon, July 18, 2014. *The Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center has published a report on a BIA engine that rolled over near Warm Springs, Oregon, July 18, 2014. Two...
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Video of of the Carlton Complex of fires in Washington
Carlton Complex, Methow Fires. from BROTHERDOUG on Vimeo. Doug Irvine describes this beautifully shot video: I was recently in the Methow Valley on a personal project, documenting the Carlton Complex...
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Property owners sue over wildfires in Washington and California
Two lawsuits are being threatened over separate wildfires in Washington and California. Poinsettia Fire About two dozen landowners are suing a golf course over last summer’s Poinsettia Fire in...
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Video describes the impacts of the Carlton Complex on the local residents
In July of this year four fires in north-central Washinton combined into what was called the Carlton Complex. By the time the fire was contained, 300 homes and 256,108 acres had burned, becoming the...
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Wildfire briefing, November 28, 2014
Mail carrier stops wildfire Bob Trujillo was delivering mail near Genesee, Colorado in August when he discovered a wildfire near a home. Since he had no cell phone service he went to a nearby house and...
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