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Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 9, Stage II Fire Restrictions will be in effect on lands managed or administered by the US Forest Service, Idaho Panhandle National Forests, the Bureau of Land Management, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, the Idaho Department of Lands, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, and Shoshone Counties.

Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 9, Stage II Fire Restrictions will be in effect on lands managed or administered by the US Forest Service, Idaho Panhandle National Forests, the Bureau of Land Management, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, the Idaho Department of Lands, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, and Shoshone Counties.

Despite very green vegetation, fire officials are reminding people that rapidly changing conditions have led them to increase the fire danger level to very high and Preparedness Level 3 on Thursday.

Fire management officials from the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison (GMUG) National Forests’ Ouray Ranger District plan to conduct the 25 Mesa prescribed burn July 6, depending upon weather and

PALO PINTO COUNTY — Mandatory evacuations were announced late Thursday afternoon at the Storage Fire in Palo Pinto continued to exhibit what Texas A&M Forest Service officials said was "extreme

PALO PINTO COUNTY — Mandatory evacuations were announced late Thursday afternoon at the Storage Fire in Palo Pinto continued to exhibit what Texas A&M Forest Service officials said was "extreme

PALO PINTO COUNTY — The Storage Fire in Palo Pinto remained at 1,000 acres and 30% contained Friday morning, with no changes overnight.

Palo Pinto County officials are encouraging residents in the Gaines Bend community on the south shore of Possum Kingdom Lake to voluntarily evacuate as flames from a major wildfire continue

PALO PINTO COUNTY — Mandatory evacuations were announced late Thursday afternoon at the Storage Fire in Palo Pinto continued to exhibit what Texas A&M Forest Service officials said was "extreme

In total, 625 federal, state and local firefighters and support personnel from the U.S. are now assigned to wildfires in Canada.