Wildfires of 2018 offer a stark reminder of how dangerous human-caused fires can be
Former Boise Fire Chief Dennis Doan told KTVB that 85% of wildfires are human caused. Author: Mark Johnson Updated: 10:15 PM MDT May 12, 2021 BOISE, Idaho — With some of the worst air quality ever, small towns evacuated and nearly all of them preventable, the wildfires that happened in 2018 can offer a history lesson as Idaho becomes warmer. Tim Barker with the National Weather Service spent most of his summer of 2018 tracking the smoke from fires around southern Idaho, Oregon and California, predicting where it was going based on winds. "Smoke can travel a l...