Tag: wildfire

CLARK AND COMANCHE COUNTIES — The Red Hills are prime cattle country. The iron-rich terrain spans two million square miles of mixed-grass and sandsage prairie across Barber, Comanche and Clark counties along the Oklahoma border,…

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — A wildfire that tore through a historic Grand Canyon lodge and raged out of control Monday had been allowed to burn for days before erupting over the weekend, raising…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As a wildfire began to sow panic in a small northern Idaho mountain community, a group of firefighters who rushed to put out the blaze instead found themselves in an unexpected shootout.…

YATES CENTER — Investigators still are trying to determine who or what caused a Friday grass fire that rapidly spread out of control, consuming a Yates Center nursing home in the process. Rich Watson, a…

YATES CENTER — The sight was almost too much to comprehend. A wildfire, fueled by winds in excess of 60 mph, was exploding by the second. “It looked like a living hell,” Iolan Kaleb Evans…

YATES CENTER —  A wind-fueled wildfire destroyed a Yates Center nursing home Friday as emergency crews from across the state battled for hours to contain the rapidly spreading blaze. All 38 residents of Yates Center…

CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — A wildfire spreading across the Texas Panhandle became the largest in state history Thursday, as a dusting of snow covered scorched prairie, dead cattle and burned out homes and gave firefighters…

A nuclear weapons facility was forced to briefly evacuate most of its staff due to a fast-moving wildfire in the Texas Panhandle. The Pantex plant, northeast of Amarillo, evacuated nonessential staff Tuesday night as the…

A wildfire burning near the California-Nevada border has ravaged parts of the Mojave National Preserve’s famed Joshua tree forests, and experts worry that the massive blaze will forever change the fragile desert ecosystem. The Joshua…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has been arrested on accusations he started a wildfire while trying to burn a spider with his lighter. Cory Allan Martin, 26, told deputies that he spotted…