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by Cody Kitaura July 23, 2021 A UC Davis Fire Department crew helped save a neighborhood of homes from burning this week amid a violent firestorm along the California-Nevada border. The team left campus Saturday (July 17) as part of a Yolo County strike team bound for the Tamarack Fire, and includes Capt. Steve Dunn serving as a strike team leader trainee, plus acting Capt. Ben Rizzo and firefighters Chad Cunningham, Meggie Elledge and Jon Poganski. Heart stopping video from our @UCDavisFire ...

Van Catches Fire After Hitting Deer South of Bellevue BELLEVUE, Idaho (KLIX)-A van was destroyed by fire after it hit a deer on Idaho Highway 75 south of Bellevue Tuesday night. According to the Blaine County Sheriffs Office, the accident happened at around 10:23 p.m. about a mile north of the U.S. Highway 20 and Idaho 75 junction. Howard Wong, 59, had been headed north on Idaho 75 in a 1999 Volkswagen Eurovan when he hit a deer that ran across the highway. The impact caused the van to catch fi...

零容忍！万江查封一批违规住人“三小”场所 为深刻吸取近期火灾事故教训，进一步加强“三小”场所和出租屋火灾防控，确保辖区消防安全形势稳定，连日来，万江消防救援大队对一批违规住人“三小”场所进行查封处理。 在查封行动中，被查封的“三小”场所违规住人情况严重，且普遍存在电器线路敷设不符合规定、应急照明灯数量不足、灭火器损坏等消防隐患问题。�...

Huge orange ball of flames: Entire town evacuated after massive fires Wildfires are burning across much of the West and weather conditions stand to worsen an already dire situation as huge areas of land go up in flames. CNNs Sara Sidner reports. Posted: Jul 17, 2021 1:50 PM Posted By: CNN Dry thunderstorms on Saturday will raise the risk of sparking new wildfires in the western US, where numerous blazes have already scorched hundreds of thousands of acres. Red flag warnings are posted Saturd...

River Fire containment nears 60% as weather eases. But hotter temps are on the way again Fresno Bee 7 hrs ago Jim Guy, The Fresno Bee Jul. 16—Cooler weather in the Sierra Nevada on Friday helped fire crews continue to subdue the River Fire, with containment rising to 59% in an early-evening update while the number of acres burned remained at 9,500. Firefighters, however, were preparing for temperatures to rise again at least slightly and for lower humidity over the weekend, ...

US suffering worst wildfire season in a decade AP By Sara Sidner and Eric Levenson, CNN This is Dennis Smith’s 25th fire season with CalFire, so the Fire Captain is fully aware of how much fighting fires has changed in that time. The temperatures are hotter. The fire seasons are several months longer. The blazes are bigger, and there are more of them. “We used to get some what you’d call ‘career fires’ maybe once every few years,” he told CNN. “We’re seeing career fires — 100,...

AP By Sara Sidner and Eric Levenson, CNN This is Dennis Smith’s 25th fire season with CalFire, so the Fire Captain is fully aware of how much fighting fires has changed in that time. The temperatures are hotter. The fire seasons are several months longer. The blazes are bigger, and there are more of them. “We used to get some what you’d call ‘career fires’ maybe once every few years,” he told CNN. “We’re seeing career fires — 100,000-plus acres — (are) a common occurrence ev...

Henry Fire burning near Spicer Reservoir Sonora, CA – The River And Henry fires containment continue to grow but one’s acreage has also climbed. The acreage has jumped from 650 to 919 and the containment from 18% to 21% in the lightning strike Henry Fire that broke out at the end ...

ZIP Advertisement A California firefighter of 25 years says wildfires like were seeing used to be much, much rarer Share Updated: 10:38 PM CDT Jul 15, 2021 Sara Sidner and Eric Levenson, CNN A California firefighter of 25 years says wildfires like were seeing used to be much, much rarer Share Updated: 10:38 PM CDT Jul 15, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript We had our three cars packed up with stuff last night. 2:30 AM. 3 4. I slept an hour last night just ...

Devastating wildfire conditions in US likely to worsen IANS 15 hours ago © IANS Devastating wildfire conditions in US likely to worsen Washington, July 15 (IANS) Over 14,000 firefighters are currently battling more than 60 huge wildfires raging in the rural regions of western US, the latest update by InciWeb, an interstate incident information system, said, adding that the conditions are likely to worsen due to bad weather. The Bootleg Fire in Klamath county, Oregon, is currently the natio...