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Residents allowed to return areas hit by central Texas wildfire
2015-10-20 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some of the hundreds of residents evacuated last week in a Texas wildfire that hit a pine forest southeast of Austin are being allowed to return to stricken areas, officials said on Tuesday. The so-called Hidden Pines fire in Bastrop County has scorched nearly 4,600 acres, or about 7 square miles, and was 80 percent contained as of Tuesday, the Texas A&M Forest Service said. The blaze destroyed nearly 70 homes, it added. "The fire conditions are such that we will be able to allow a qualified...
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Wildfire in central Texas 40 percent contained
2015-10-17 19:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters have contained the so-called Hidden Pines wildfire inside a well-defined footprint after it burned on 4,582 acres and forced the evacuation of more than 400 homes, local officials in Bastrop County said during a news conference on Saturday. "We have been playing defense on this fire for the last four days and today we are in containment mode, which means that we are not going to let that fire score anything else," Bastrop County Judge Paul Pape during a news conference. The wildfire...
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Risk Trees & Wildfire Risk
2015-10-13 17:25:00| Transmission & Distribution World
One of the major causes of power line initiated wildfires is trees or tree parts falling into electrical conductors. What can a utility reasonably do to reduce this risk? read more
Risk Trees & Wildfire Risk
2015-10-13 17:12:00| Transmission & Distribution World
One of the major causes of power line initiated wildfires is trees or tree parts falling into electrical conductors. What can a utility reasonably do to reduce this risk? read more
SDG&E Asks For Approval To Add Some 2007 Wildfire Costs To Rates
2015-09-30 16:28:00| Transmission & Distribution World
San Diego Gas & Electric has asked the California Public Utilities Commission for approval to recover in rates the remaining costs to settle the 2,500 lawsuits related to the 2007 wildfires read more
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