Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
Far from dying down, as California's infernos will, America's shout-fest/blame-fest/hate-fest will continue at least until next year's presidential election - something fires, floods and famines seemingly can't change.
When the residents of San Diego County went to bed last Sunday night, all were gripped by the news of raging wildfires in Orange county and one rapidly spreading fire in Witch Creek, a town just northeast of San Diego. By Monday morning, all of southern California was on alert.
Source: The Washington Post
FEMA has truly learned the lessons of Katrina. Even its handling of the media has improved dramatically. For example, as the California wildfires raged Tuesday, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy administrator, had a 1 p.m. news briefing.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Washington Wire was a little stunned to receive a press release today hawking disgraced former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown as "available for interviews" to discuss the wildfire crisis in Southern California.
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When this Azola couple got back from their honeymoon, they had about an hour of matrimonial bliss before being forced to flee as their house was engulfed in flames.
Source: Yahoo! News
Calif. fires burned, copters grounded By AARON C. DAVIS and MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writers Fri Oct 26, 7:22 AM ET
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Wildfires raging in Southern California over the last several days have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate. A dozen or more fires have burned more than 500 square miles in an area extending from Los Angeles to San Diego.
Source: Energy Policy TV
The hearing considers scientific assessments of the impacts of global climate change on wildfire activity in the United States.
Source: Reuters
An estimated 1,500 homes burned and about 500,000 people were evacuated as some 17 blazes turned blue October skies brown and orange across Southern California.
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This is the blog with information about the fires in the San Bernardino mountains. Let's hope they can begin to contain this sometime soon.
Currently, fires are raging across Southern California and thousands of residents are trying to access the latest updated news about evacuations, weather conditions, and active firelines. On any normal day, this would be a simple task.
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This will either be a very short slice of mountain life or an epic tale of evacuation, resettling and rebuilding. Having been through the latter, I hope it's the former. Fawnskin, CA 3:13 PM A 5-acre wildfire is burning approximately 3 miles outside of town.
Authorities discovered a 25-acre wildfire Wednesday afternoon burning about eight miles east of Bozeman.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Dry grasses, cheatgrass and wheatgrass help ignite pinyon pines and juniper trees. Cheatgrass is the gasoline of wildfires. It springs back faster in a burned-out area than perennial native grasses and, each year, the cheatgrass comes back in greater and greater numbers.
Source: ABC News
Weeks into a wildfire season that has already burned parts of Catalina Island, Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe, swaths of California's flammable national forests are some days protected by nothing more than luck.
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There is an audio file of 11:15 a.m. news conference attached to this story. It updates figures previously given.
Source: The Orlando Sentinel
A fire so monstrous and swift it created its own windstorm left firefighters racing Friday to finish evacuating hundreds of North Florida homes and assembling a massive fleet of bulldozers.
Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Forest ranger Mark VanEvery told hundreds of people gathered in Grand Marais that no additional structures were lost overnight "that we know of," although officials are still trying to assess that.
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The citizens of Los Angeles are deeply concerned after serious wildfires in the Griffith Park and Hollywood Hills have destroyed vast swaths of urban wilderness and killed or displaced thousands of animals during their breeding season.
Source: The L.A. Times
Firefighters from three counties battled a fast-moving fire Saturday in the high-desert town of Hesperia, a blaze that by nightfall had consumed 1,400 acres and prompted the evacuation of about 500 residents from more than 200 homes.
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Massive wildfire blazes through the north rim of the Grand Canyon a few years ago. This footage was used in an anti-smoking promotional ad, which is a little odd, but the fire footage in the end is pretty awesome.
Source: thedenverchannel.com
Erosion from hillsides left barren by the devastating Hayman wildfire of 2002 is dumping tons of mud, ash and decomposed granite into Cheesman Reservoir and creating expensive problems for Denver's water utility.
Source: apnews.myway.com
CABAZON, Calif. (AP) - A wind-driven wildfire near Palm Springs engulfed a fire engine Thursday, killing three firefighters, and up to 400 people were trapped in a recreational vehicle park when flames blocked the only road out, officials said.