Authorities announce 7 more deaths Thursday in Butte County as searchers continue looking for 16 missing people.
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Posted inMaine, Uncategorized
Dry weather prompts state to suspend online burn permits
The Maine Forest Service says adequate rainfall is necessary before it will resume issuing burn permits online.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
Utility company confesses to killing 84 people in 2018 California fire
The blaze, ignited by Pacific Gas & Electric’s crumbling electrical grid, nearly wiped out the entire town of Paradise.
Posted inMaine, News
Several wildfires rage across Maine
They include one that destroyed a home in Embden and another that consumed an acre in Gouldsboro before firefighters prevented it from spreading to a structure.
Posted inPerspective
California’s new normal: Wildfires, ash and power outages could last a decade
From wineries to hardware stories, to newly rebuilt neighborhoods recovering from a devastating wildfire in 2017, blackouts are redefining a swatch of California.
Posted inPerspective
Why we need to treat wildfire as a public health issue in California
Fires are spreading into communities and increasingly affecting large numbers of Californians, sometimes repeatedly. Researchers say it is time to treat fires that affect communities as a public health challenge.
Posted inNation / World, sj-web
Grim task searching for victims as fire death toll reaches 42
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — More than a dozen coroner search and recovery teams looked for human remains from a Northern California wildfire that killed at least 42 — making it the deadliest in state history — as anxious relatives visited shelters and called police hoping to find loved ones alive. Lisa Jordan drove 600 miles […]
Posted inPerspective, sj-web
Wildfires are inevitable – increasing home losses, fatalities and costs are not
Wildfire has been an integral part of California ecosystems for centuries. Now, however, nearly a third of homes in California are in wildland urban interface areas where houses intermingling with wildlands and fire is a natural phenomenon. Just as Californians must live with earthquake risk, they must live with wildfires. Shaped by ignitions, climate and […]
Posted inPerspective, sj-web
A perfect storm of factors is making wildfires bigger and more expensive to control
Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last year’s disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six deaths have been reported in Northern California’s Carr Fire, including two firefighters. Fires have scorched Yosemite, Yellowstone, Crater Lake, Sequoia and Grand Canyon national parks. A blaze in June forced Colorado to shut down the […]
Posted inPerspective, sj-web
The world's on fire. Blame a kink in the jet stream
Sweltering? Swimming? Choking on wildfire smoke? Blame it on the jet stream. Kinked, buckled, stuck or stalled, it doesn’t matter how you describe it, the ribbon of wind that circles the Earth is doing strange things and the calamity list includes wildfires across Scandinavia, Greece and California, record heat in Texas, Japan and Africa and […]