Emergency crews respond to house fire on North Westfield Street
Crews responded to a house fire on North Westfield Street in Agawam on Friday evening. When our Western Mass News crews ...
Human-caused fires growing faster than lightning fires in Western US, study suggests
A study published in PNAS Nexus shows that there are almost twice as many risky days for large human-caused fires in the ...
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Funding Freeze on Wildfire Prevention: A Crisis Ignites in the West
The Trump administration halted funding for wildfire risk reduction programs, affecting the western U.S. This has led to ...
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16 displaced following 2-alarm house fire in Springfield
Originally, officials reported 14 people were displaced. That number has since risen to 16 and 6 of them are under the age of ...
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As western Altadena waited hours for evacuation orders, fire commanders faced utter chaos
With thousands of lives at risk, a mobile command post tasked with issuing evacuation orders struggled to keep pace with the ...
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Funding Freeze Sparks Wildfire Prevention Crisis in Western States
The Trump administration's funding freeze on federal wildfire risk reduction programs threatens efforts in Western states. This move impacts numerous agencies and organizations involved in hazardous ...
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Private landowners in western North Carolina fight wildfire with prescribed fire
Last year, the state experienced over 4,000 wildfires, but most of these fires only burn a couple acres. A fall drought could ...