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Jet fuel shortage is hampering aerial firefighting efforts in Montana Jet fuel shortage is hampering aerial firefighting efforts in Montana By: Tom Wylie and last updated 2021-07-27 18:36:08-04 GREAT FALLS — A pair of Bridger Aerospace "Super Scooper" firefighting airplanes have been parked overnight at Holman Aviation in Great Falls since last week. It’s not an ideal situation, but they’re here out of necessity. The two planes are contracted to assist with aerial...

KSL TV SALT LAKE CITY — Dozens of Utah firefighters began this week helping out with large wildfires in Oregon and Montana. Utah Wildland Task Force 1 and 2 remain stationed at the Bootleg Fire burning 15 miles northwest of Beatty, Oregon. In a video posted by the Unified Fire Authority Monday afternoon, firefighters said they were "mopping up" a section of the massive fire, which means they were working to cool down hot areas where the fire has burned. "Theres a lot of work to be done here,"...

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INDIAN FALLS, California - Los vientos erráticos y la posibilidad de que se produzcan relámpagos secos se sumaron a los desafíos que enfrentan los bomberos que luchan contra el mayor incendio forestal de California, uno de los numerosos fuegos que arden el lunes en el oeste de Estados Unidos, y que han obligado a evacuar a más de 8,300 personas. Durante el fin de semana, el enorme incendio en Dixie se unió a uno más pequeño, el incendio en Fly, y arrasó la remota comun...

Western wildfire battles aided by weather but losses grow Associated Press Updated:  Full Screen1 / 9 Following the Dixie Fire, a scorched Jeep rests in the Indian Falls community of Plumas County, Calif., on Monday, July 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) INDIAN FALLS, Calif. – Weather conditions Tuesday were helping at least temporarily to calm two gigantic wildfires in the West but there was bad news for a tiny California community savaged by flames last weekend, and property losses increas...

US Wildfires 2021: Thousands Of Homes Under Threat; Jet Fuel Shortages Disrupt Flights In US West KEY POINTS Five firefighters were injured while battling Montana’s wildfires The Bootleg Fire still to be fully contained, growing in the east Airports in the west are reporting jet fuel shortages Wildfires continued their death dance across the U.S. West over the weekend, with hundreds of homes burned down in California and thousands more threatened, causing evacuations and sucking in firefighti...

US Wildfires 2021: Thousands Of Homes Under Threat; Jet Fuel Shortages Disrupt Fights In US West By Marvie Basilan on July 26 2021 1:45 PM Wildfires across the U.S. continue to threaten homes and have affected commercial and cargo flights due to jet fuel shortages. Wildfires continued their death dance across the U.S. West over the weekend, with hundreds of homes burned down in California and thousands more threatened, causing evacuations and sucking in firefi...

5 firefighters injured in Montana blaze in stable condition July 25, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail In this photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management, a helicopter works above the Devils Creek Fire in central Montana on Thursday, July 22, 2021. Five firefighters were injured when a thunderstorm and swirling winds in central Montana blew a lightning-caused wildfire back on them, federal officials said Friday, July 23, 2021. (Mark Jacobsen/Bureau of Land Management via AP)Mark Jacobsen/AP JORDAN...

States scale back virus reporting just as cases surge OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Several states scaled back their reporting of COVID-19 statistics this month just as cases across the country started to skyrocket, depriving the public of real-time information on outbreaks, cases, hospitalizations and deaths in their communities. The shift to weekly instead of daily reporting in Florida, Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota marked a notable shift during a pandemic in which coronavirus dashboards have bec...