Firefighters Struggle to Contain Wildfires
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"A lot of the prairies within Canada, the prairie provinces, entered the fire season already starting out in a drought, and so there wasn't a lot of moisture throughout the winter," said Alex Jones a communications manager at the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center.
Summer smoke from Canadian wildfires is once again hazing out Minnesota skies — just in time for your long-awaited Northwoods vacation. Not the pristine, fresh pine-forest air you were hoping for. “It’s not really better or worse up here than the Twin Cities right now,
Santa Ana Watershed officials said the four-year program, which began in late 2023, would not be continued due, in part, to wildfires in target regions, including Orange County's Airport fire.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) -Containment continues to grow for the wildfires burning in the west. Here is the latest information. This table was updated as of 5:30 p.m. on July 24th. According to the Delta County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO), Escalante Canyon Road is open, but ZS Road into Mesa County is still closed to the public.
Brown County is currently at a moderate level for air quality, which means the air quality is acceptable, but it can still be a risk for people in sensitive groups. Other counties affected include Door, Shawano, Outagamie, Kewaunee, Oconto, Marinette, according to the National Weather Service Green Bay.
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If state funding for forest health and wildfire prevention isn’t ramped back up in the next legislative session, it could hinder efforts to prevent severe fires in the coming years, Washington’s top public lands official and others warned this week.
Central Oregon’s Cram Fire, east of Madras, broke out on July 13 and went on to burn more than 95,000 acres, becoming the country’s largest fire this year. But there has been little recent growth, and as of July 24, the fire was 77 percent contained.
Outagamie County is currently at a moderate level for air quality, which means the air quality is acceptable, but it can still be a risk for people in sensitive groups. Other counties affected include Door, Shawano, Brown, Kewaunee, Oconto, Marinette, according to the National Weather Service Green Bay.
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News Nation on MSNSouthern California marks 6 months since devastating wildfiresLOS ANGELES ( NewsNation) — As the death toll from January’s historic and devastating Southern California wildfires continues to rise with the discovery of additional human remains, many residents are still struggling to get back on their feet.