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Easing Alaska's wildfire seasons means tackling climate change
2015-07-10 03:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch News: Alaska is burning. As of July 8 more than 300 fires are blazing across the state in an extreme and costly fire season that could last well into August. Firefighters and the resources they depend on are being pressed to the limits. I know exactly what our front-line defenders are going through. Ive been there. During the summer of 1983, I was among a group of smokejumpers dispatched from western states to Alaska during a major fire bust, a relatively large number of fires started mostly by...
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RDPO Special Panel Presentation: "Weather - Water - Wildfire"
2015-07-06 21:22:46| PortlandOnline
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Washington's wildfire season gets off to an early, unprecedented start
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The Sleepy Hollow fire raced down the crisp Sage Hills, straight toward the Broadview neighborhood in the apple capital of the world. Flames shot high into the night, torching 29 homes and causing hundreds of people to flee. Then the fire did something no one here had seen before. Embers flew more than a mile Sunday night, into the hardworking heart of this small city. They ignited four industrial buildings, most involved in fruit packing, at the start of the busy summer agriculture season. The...
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Beleaguered residents return to homes destroyed in Wash state wildfire
2015-06-30 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Families whose homes were destroyed in a massive grassland wildfire in Washington state were allowed to return to their residences on Tuesday, as firefighters fought to contain the virtually unchecked blaze, officials said. Fueled by triple digit temperatures and gusting winds, the so-called Sleepy Hollow fire has scorched nearly 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) of rolling grasslands and brush around the city of Wenatchee since it erupted on a parched central Washington hillside on Sunday. The blaze...
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RDPO Special Panel Presentation: "Weather - Water - Wildfire"
2015-06-30 17:46:15| PortlandOnline
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