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Gov/Politics

Los Angeles Ablaze But Congress Ignores Controlled Burn Law

January 14, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Los Angeles Ablaze But Congress Ignores Controlled Burn Law

WASHINGTON, DC, January 14, 2025 (ENS) – Amidst far-reaching climatic and political changes, one opportunity for bipartisan environmental restoration has been overlooked. The National Prescribed Fire Act was introduced for the third time in May 2024 by a bipartisan group of legislators to support the preventative fire management technique of controlled burning – setting fires in safe conditions to mitigate the risk of larger, more dangerous wildfires. […]

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Santa Ana Winds Whip Los Angeles Fires: Death Toll: 24

January 8, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on Santa Ana Winds Whip Los Angeles Fires: Death Toll: 24

LOS ANGELES, California, January 12, 2025 (ENS) – Firefighters have made some progress against major wildfires that destroyed parts of Los Angeles, after blazing for five days, causing thousands of terrified residents to evacuate their homes moments ahead of the leaping flames. At least 16 civilians have died, 16 others are missing, and many more have been hurt in the wind-driven fires that spread quickly and are still burning today in some parts of Los Angeles County. […]

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IDAHO: Execs Indicted for Firefighting Fuel Truck Wire Fraud

December 19, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on IDAHO: Execs Indicted for Firefighting Fuel Truck Wire Fraud

BOISE, Idaho, December 19, 2023 (ENS) – After a court-authorized wiretap investigation, a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, this week charged two executives of competing companies with conspiring to rig bids for forest firefighting contracts and allocate territories in violation of the Sherman Act. […]

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Maui County Sues Hawaiian Electric for Sparking Deadly Fires

August 25, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Maui County Sues Hawaiian Electric for Sparking Deadly Fires

KAHULUI, Maui, Hawaii, August 25, 2023 (ENS) – Maui County sued Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. and its subsidiaries, including Maui Electric Co., Thursday, alleging civil damages from the deadly August 8 fires in Lahaina. The lawsuit claims that Hawaiian Electric’s energized and downed power lines sparked three different fires by igniting dry grass and brush in the hills above Lahaina and elsewhere in Upcountry Maui. […]

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Biden’s Maui Prayer: May He Hold You in the Palm of His Hand

August 22, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Biden’s Maui Prayer: May He Hold You in the Palm of His Hand

LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 22, 2023 (ENS) – Governor Josh Green, M.D., and First Lady Jaime Kanani Green accompanied President Joe Biden, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, members of the Hawaii Congressional delegation and others, on an assessment of the wildfire damage to Lahaina Monday. […]

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Maui Wildfire Death Toll Hits 93, Lahaina Devastated

August 9, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Maui Wildfire Death Toll Hits 93, Lahaina Devastated

LAHAINA, Maui, Hawaii, August 13, 2023 (ENS) – Hawaii Governor Josh Green and Maui County officials said today that the fire death toll from this week’s wildfires in the historic town of Lahaina has risen to 93 people; search and rescue work continues. Many others have been injured, and at least 11,000 residents have lost their homes or businesses. […]

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UN Petitioned to Save Pantanal Wetland Wildlife From Fires

August 21, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on UN Petitioned to Save Pantanal Wetland Wildlife From Fires

PARIS, France, August 21, 2022 (ENS) – As this year’s fire season intensifies, wildfires in Brazil are jeopardizing the world’s largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal, and its rare and imperiled wildlife. Inhabited by 3,500 species of plants, 600 bird species, 150 mammals, 175 reptiles, 40 amphibians and 300 freshwater fish… […]

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Ancient Olympia Saved From Wildfire, Arson Suspects in Custody

August 7, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Ancient Olympia Saved From Wildfire, Arson Suspects in Custody

ATHENS, Greece, August 7, 2021 (ENS) – An extensive fire on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece has threatened the site of Ancient Olympia, where the first Olympic Games were held. Today, this is where the Olympic flame is passed to the first torchbearer of the upcoming Olympic Games, such as those currently coming to a close in Tokyo, Japan […]

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Air/Climate

Climate Change Intensifies Despite Pandemic Lockdowns

September 10, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Climate Change Intensifies Despite Pandemic Lockdowns

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 10, 2020 (ENS) – Already at their highest levels in three million years, greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere continue to increase, lockdowns around the world to slow the spread of the pandemic coronavirus have forced vehicles to stay parked, making way for clearer skies – temporarily. […]

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Rampaging Fires Send U.S. Western Forests Up in Smoke

September 9, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Rampaging Fires Send U.S. Western Forests Up in Smoke

EUGENE, Oregon, September 8, 2020 (ENS) – Smoke filled the air in this university city on Tuesday, turning the sky orange and the sun red, as it did across much of the U.S. West. Thousands of firefighters are battling raging wildfires driven by extreme heat and hot, gusty winds that are threatening forests and residential areas across the region. […]

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Deadly California Fires Roar Through Ancient Redwoods

August 23, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Deadly California Fires Roar Through Ancient Redwoods

SACRAMENTO, California, August 23, 2020 (ENS) – First came the heatwave, then thousands of lightning strikes, now hundreds of fires. The fires in the Bay Area and around Northern California have forced at least 77,000 evacuations and claimed five lives. And the flames have reached through protected groves of some of the oldest and largest trees on Earth – California’s coastal redwoods. […]