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Obama To Propose Changes to Wildfire Funding in Budget
2014-02-22 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Channel: Obama wants the Interior and Agriculture Departments, the two agencies tasked with fighting wildfires, to be able to draw funds from a special disaster account when the cost of tackling fires exceeds their annual budget. That's the same approach the federal government currently takes when responding to hurricanes and tornadoes. The official said the new approach was aimed at providing more certainty for agencies fighting fires. The proposal will be included in the annual budget Obama will send...
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Obama to Propose Shift in Wildfire Funding
2014-02-22 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obamas annual budget request to Congress will propose a significant change in how the government pays to fight wildfires, administration officials said, a move that they say reflects the ways in which climate change is increasing the risk for and cost of those fires. The wildfire funding shift is one in a series of recent White House actions related to climate change as Mr. Obama tries to highlight the issue and build political support for his administrations more muscular policies,...
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Wildfire in hills near Los Angeles is largely contained
2014-01-19 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A wildfire in the hills near Los Angeles was more than 75 percent contained on Sunday, after blackening some 1,900 acres of drought-parched shrubland and destroying five homes, officials said. The so-called Colby Fire, which officials said started from a campfire, was expected to be fully contained by Tuesday, said Nathan Judy, a spokesman for the Angeles National Forest & Fire Department. The blaze, centered in the San Gabriel Mountains on territory that is part of the Angeles National Forest,...
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Firefighters hold line against southern California wildfire
2014-01-18 05:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters sought to prevent a wildfire in the foothills near Los Angeles from flaring up on Saturday, as they put out embers from a blaze that has destroyed five homes, officials said. The so-called Colby Fire, which officials said started from a campfire early on Thursday, has blackened nearly 1,900 acres of drought-parched chaparral and is 30 percent contained, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Robert Brady. That was the same level of containment firefighters reported on Friday, but officials...
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3 Arrested in Los Angeles Wildfire, Police Say
2014-01-16 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A fast-moving brush fire that erupted Thursday morning quickly burned at least 1,700 acres northeast of downtown Los Angeles, county fire officials said. The police in Glendora said three men had been arrested in connection with the Colby Fire, which broke out just before 6 a.m. in the Angeles National Forest, about 25 miles northeast of downtown. The chief of Glendora police, Tim Staab, said at a news conference that the three men had reportedly been camping in the forest, and that at least one...
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