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Crews mopping up Idaho brush fire that burned 19 acres near Lake Lowell Ian Max Stevenson, The Idaho Statesman May 20—Crews from the Nampa and Deer Flat Refuge fire departments, as well as from the Bureau of Land Management in Boise, are still battling a brush and grass fire near Nampa's Lake Lowell. As of late Thursday morning, the fire had been contained but was not yet controlled, according to BLM fire information officer Jared Jablonski. "There was a substantial amount of mop-up to do," Jablonski told the Statesman by phone Thursday morning. Crews are expecting to contro...

Updated: 8:47 PM MDT May 19, 2021 NAMPA, Idaho — Multiple fire crews are battling a brush fire in the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, according to fire officials. A spokesperson for the Boise Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, told KTVB that the fire was first reported just after 6:00 p.m Wednesday at the wildlife sanctuary. Officials said the last update from field crews was that the fire was about five to ten acres and was burning up grass, with the wind driving the fire. As of 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, crews have knocked the fire down, according to the BLM official, and cr...

Crews battle Idaho brush, grass fire that has burned several acres near Lake Lowell Ian Max Stevenson, The Idaho Statesman May 20—Crews from the Nampa and Deer Flat Refuge fire departments, as well as from the Bureau of Land Management in Boise, are battling a brush and grass fire near Nampa's Lake Lowell. The fire was first reported just before 6 p.m. and was burning near Roosevelt Avenue and Upper Embankment Road, just north of the lake and the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, according to the Nampa Police Department. BLM fire information officer Jared Jablonski said th...

The case for visiting Loch Lomond, one of the prettiest parks in the Bay Area FacebookTwitterEmail For more stories like this, check out The Chronicle’s weekly Travel newsletter!Sign up here. In the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains is one of the prettiest parks in the greater Bay Area, Loch Lomond Recreation Area, which was missed by last year’s CZU Lightning Complex fires and is now weathering the drought, too. Loch Lomond is best known for being 3 miles long but very narrow, set in a deep canyon and edged by redwoods and Douglas firs that rise on the surrounding slopes. The forest th...

Meridian Road reopens after head-on crash in Kuna forces lane closure The Ada County Sheriff's Office said both drivers in the crash, which happened at the intersection of Meridian and Deer Flat roads in Kuna, were injured. Credit: Ada County Sheriff's Office Two drivers were injured in a head-on crash that happened on Meridian Road at the intersection with Deer Flat Road in Kuna on Tuesday, May 4. Author: KTVB Staff Updated: 3:05 PM MDT May 4, 2021 KUNA, Idaho — Several lanes of Meridian Road in Kuna are back open after a head-on crash between two trucks ha...