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What was once limited to certain months now encompasses an entire ‘fire year

As climate change makes wildfire conditions worse, fire behavior analysts are facing blazes bigger, stronger and stranger than ever before.

In Fairbanks, Alaska, the US Forest Service is looking to hire a smokejumper, a person who parachutes out of a rickety airplane to wrangle wildfires that

In Fairbanks, Alaska, the U.S. Forest Service is looking to hire a smokejumper, a person who parachutes out of a rickety airplane to wrangle wildfires that break out far from

In Fairbanks, Alaska, the U.S. Forest Service is looking to hire a smokejumper, a person who parachutes out of a rickety airplane to wrangle wildfires that break out far from

In Fairbanks, Alaska, the U.S. Forest Service is looking to hire a smokejumper, a person who parachutes out of a rickety airplane to wrangle wildfires that break out far from

Story City Municipal Electric Utility sees retirement of three longtime employees Ames Tribune Three longtime employees have worked a combined 86 years for the Story City Municipal Electric Utility, and they are retiring this winter and spring. Accounting clerk, Doretta Hoffman, has worked 35 years for the utility; line foreman, Tim Casperson, has worked there 30 years; and utility clerk, Kathy Casperson, 21 years. Story City is one of just a few Iowa towns its size that has its own municipal e...