Wildfire - The Durango Herald

New evacuations as huge Southern California fire flares up

LOS ANGELES – A flare-up on the western edge of Southern California’s largest and most destructive wildfire sent residents fleeing Sunday, as wind-fanned flames churned through canyons and d...

DATE: Dec 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Largest wildfire eyes communities northwest of Los Angeles

VENTURA, Calif. – Flames from the largest and most destructive Southern California wildfire churned toward coastal and mountain communities northwest of Los Angeles on Thursday, disrupting t...

DATE: Dec 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Target shooting caused 60-acre fire near Electra Lake

Durango man unaware ammunition was incendiary

DATE: Nov 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Electra Lake Fire expected to remain stable

Cause of fire could be announced Monday

DATE: Nov 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wildfire near Electra Lake grows to 60 acres

Cause of blaze is under investigation

DATE: Nov 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Firefighters battling wildfire north of Durango

Blaze grows to about 40 acres in grassy field

DATE: Nov 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Fixing Colorado’s forests with the help of ‘citizen science’

FRISCO – The pine beetle came to Summit County in 2005, turning scores of trees red and creeping higher up the mountainsides each year. Twelve years later, nearly every stand of l...

DATE: Nov 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Sheriff: Wildfires point to usefulness of old technology

UKIAH, Calif. – Wildfires that killed nine people in a remote Northern California county last month also crippled land lines, cellphones and internet service, the local sheriff said Thursday...

DATE: Nov 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Durango soon to see smoke from Arizona

Prevailing winds are pushing diffuse smoke from prescribed burns in the Cononino National Forest near Flagstaff, Ariz. toward Southwest Colorado. Area dispatch centers ask the pub...

DATE: Nov 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Jumbo air tanker wins protest, may fight more U.S. wildfires

BOISE, Idaho – A giant passenger jet converted to fight wildfires was grounded this year by U.S. officials during much of what turned out to be an especially destructive U.S. fire season, bu...

DATE: Nov 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California fire victims seek housing in tight, pricey market

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Raj Sodhi, his wife, Lucia Cascio and their 11-year-old twins turned into nomads for more than three weeks after a wildfire gutted their California wine country home – l...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House OKs bill to speed logging to combat wildfires

WASHINGTON – Responding to deadly wildfires in California and the West, House Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill to allow faster approval for logging and other actions to reduce the risk...

DATE: Nov 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World