Wildfire - The Durango Herald

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

California wildfire insurance claims top $3.3 billion

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Property damage claims from a series of deadly October wildfires now exceed $3.3 billion, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said Tuesday. The figur...

DATE: Oct 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Full recovery from California wildfires may take years

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – It will take at least months and likely years to fully recover from devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California earlier this month, destroying at least...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP targets environmental rules after wildfires

WASHINGTON – House Republicans are targeting environmental rules to allow faster approval for tree cutting in national forests in response to the deadly wildfires in California. M...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Congress gives the go-ahead on another round of disaster relief funding

Nearly $600 million to be used specifically to pay back the costs of fighting 2017 fires

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bipartisan Senate bill aims to prevent Western wildfires

WASHINGTON – As wildfires rage across California and the West, Democratic and Republican senators have joined forces to help rural communities better prepare for and prevent catastrophic wil...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wildfires worsen housing crunch in famously costly Bay Area

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Even before fire wiped out the home she rented for 17 years, Suzanne Finzell had thought about leaving this city on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area because of ris...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World