Wildfire has become a year-round threat in the West given changing conditions that include earlier snowmelt and rain coming later in the fall. FOX13
A wildfire in south-central Nebraska grew to more than 41,000 acres by Monday, April 25, killing at least one person, a retired fire chief who was helping fight the fire, officials said.
Jonathan Ashford, spokesman for the Rocky Mountain Complex Incident Management Team, told The Associated Press that more than 80 firefighters, emergency management personnel and others were helping fight the fire, known as the Road 702 Fire. It had burned nearly 65 square miles in Red Willow, Furnas and Frontier counties by late Sunday.
ew Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed emergency declarations as 20 wildfires continued to burn Sunday in nearly half of the state’s drought-stricken 33 counties. Winds and temperatures in New Mexico diminished Saturday but remained strong enough to still fan fires. Dozens of evacuation orders remained in place.
Fire management officials said an exact damage count was unclear because it’s still too dangerous for crews to go in and look at all the homes that have been lost. Lujan Grisham said she has asked the White House for more federal resources and she’s calling for a ban of fireworks statewide.
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