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Forest Service Didn't Consider Climate Change When It Accidentally Caused Historic Fire
The Calf Canyon/Hermits Creek fire has burned more than 341,000 acres and destroyed hundreds of homes in New Mexico.
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Biden Signs Off on Hefty Pay Raise for Federal Firefighters
President Joe Biden has signed off on giving federal wildland firefighters a hefty raise for the next two fiscal years. The move announced Tuesday affects more than 16,000 firefighters and comes as much of the West braces for a difficult wildfire season. Pay raises for the federal firefighters had been included in last year’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill, but they...
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Biden Says Federal Government Will Cover Full Cost of New Mexico Wildfire Recovery
President Joe Biden says he is escalating federal assistance for New Mexico as it faces its largest wildfire in recorded state history.
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Biden Facing Fire and Anger During New Mexico Visit
President Joe Biden is visiting New Mexico to talk about his administration’s efforts to tackle wildfires as residents smolder with anger over how federal officials allowed planned burns to spread out of control, leading to the largest blaze in recorded state history.
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In This Zone, Your Home Might Be at a Higher Wildfire Risk
Across the country, more than two-thirds of the homes and businesses destroyed by wildfires are in the “wildland urban interface,” or WUI, a transitional zone between developed areas and wilderness. LX News climate storyteller Chase Cain explains why the area is more hazardous and how to see if your home is one of the 72 million facing some level of...
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California Fire Destroys Mansions; New Mexico Blaze Threatens Resort Towns
In Southern California, a wildfire erupted Wednesday in the coastal community of Laguna Niguel and burned more than 20 homes, many of them multimillion-dollar mansions.
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Crews in New Mexico, Arizona Scramble to Corral Wildfires
Firefighters in New Mexico’s Rocky Mountain foothills are excavating new firebreaks and clearing brush to keep a massive wildfire from destroying more homes and pine forests. Nearly 300 structures including homes, commercial buildings and barns have already been destroyed. Officials said Monday that the tally will increase as more of the damage is surveyed. More residents were told to evacuate...
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New Mexico Residents Brace for Extreme Wildfire Conditions
Residents of a northern New Mexico city tried to recapture a sense of normalcy as their rural neighbors hunkered down amid predictions of extreme fire conditions.
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Biden Declares Disaster in New Mexico as Largest Wildfire in US Rages
Firefighters have slowed the advance of the largest wildfire in the U.S. as heavy winds relented, while Biden’s disaster declaration brings new financial resources.
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Residents Wary as Fire Burns Near Northeast New Mexico Town
Residents of the small northeast New Mexico town have been watching aircraft disappear into a giant plume of smoke to fight a growing wildfire that has burned hundreds of square miles.
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Firefighters Battling New Mexico Blaze Brace for Wind
Over 1,000 firefighters backed by bulldozers and aircraft battled the largest active wildfire in the U.S. on Saturday after strong winds pushed it across some containment lines and closer to a small city in northern New Mexico.
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More Evacuations Expected Near Dangerous Southwest Wildfires
Thousands of firefighters are battling destructive wildfires in the Southwest as more residents are preparing to evacuate into the weekend in northern New Mexico.
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Map Shows Growing Number of Wildfires Sweeping Across US
From Florida to Colorado, major fires are burning in at least 13 states.
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Fires Hit Southwest, New Mexico's Season ‘Dangerously Early'
New Mexico’s governor says the state faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes
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“A Very Chaotic Situation': Crews Tackle Growing Wildfires
Destructive U.S. Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger, as wind-fueled flames chewed up wide swaths of tinder dry forest and grassland and plumes of smoke filled the sky
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Biden to Sign Order Protecting Old-Growth Forests From Wildfire
President Joe Biden will use Earth Day visit to Seattle to sign an executive order protecting some of the nation’s largest and oldest trees.
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Wind Will Be a Force to Reckon With on Southwest Wildfires
Fire managers across the Southwest are reckoning with strong winds that are fueling wildfires
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‘Wall of Fire' Forces Evacuations Near Arizona Tourist Town
Winds kicked up a towering wall of flames in rural northern Arizona on Tuesday, tearing through two-dozen structures and forcing the evacuation of more than 700 homes.
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New Mexico Village Seeks Prayers as Deadly Wildfire Rages
Residents of a southern New Mexico village are asking for prayers as firefighters dealt with more hot, dry and windy conditions while battling a deadly blaze that has already destroyed more than 200 homes
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Fueled by Gusty Winds, Wildfires Sweep Through Small Texas Towns, Prompt Evacuations
Fire crews struggled Friday to contain massive, windswept wildfires that burned homes, destroyed a church and left a sheriff’s deputy dead.