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The wildfire in Southwest Nebraska scorched more than 43,000 acres across Furnas and Red Willow counties this past week. Nebraska Public Media News tells the stories of two families who were in the thick of the blaze.
This secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to…
The wildfire, which started on April 22, claimed the life of a former Cambridge fire chief and burned over 44,000 acres of land.
Despite critical fire weather Tuesday, firefighters continued to make progress on the Road 702 Fire in southwest Nebraska. Nebraska Emergency Management says the fire is now 74% contained.
Nebraska’s Emergency Management Agency raised the total acreage of the wildfire to 43,582 Thursday morning. The only uncontained area remains around the Republican River Valley.