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Fire Season

Cabinet secretaries vow to find money to fight fires

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell flew with smokejumpers from Boises National Interagency Fire Center on Sunday.

Decisions on how to use limited federal funds may mean cuts to local programs.

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LOCAL NEWS

Lightning strikes cause nine fires in Boise National Forest

Has the wildfire season begun? Lightning started fires in the Emmett and Idaho City Ranger districts this weekend.
NATIONAL

Barker: New Interior secretary plans Boise visit to talk fire

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will make her first visit to the National Interagency Fire Center with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday.
STATE

U.S. official: Wildfires to get more destructive

Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell told the City Club of Boise that as much as 12 million to 15 million acres will burn annually because of warming temperatures and drier years.
FIRE SEASON

Humans behind Boise forest’s worst damage

While a super hot and dry summer caused Idaho’s forests and grasslands to burn by August, the biggest problem for firefighters in the Boise National Forest and the Bureau of Land Management Boise District was not weather. It was people. The number of human-caused wildfires was unusually ...
FIRE SEASON

Idaho's not out of the woods yet for 2012 fire season

Forest fires are mostly contained or under control, but there’s still some fire activity.
FIRE SEASON

I-84 fire near Mountain Home in mop-up stage; control expected Tuesday morning

A fire sparked by a vehicle dragging an unknown object in the westbound lanes of I-84 burned about 1,000 acres Monday, according to a Bureau of Land Management dispatcher.
MERIDIAN, EAGLE, KUNA, STAR

Grass fire burned about 150 acres near Gem-Ada County line Wednesday afternoon

Firefighters from a half dozen local agencies battled a grass fire north of Eagle Wednesday afternoon, according to Eagle Fire spokesman Nevil Humphreys.
CRIME

18-year-old man accused of starting Karney fire to enter plea in arson case next week

An 18-year-old Boise County volunteer firefighter accused of purposefully starting a wildfire that destroyed one home and threatened more than 100 others last week is now set to enter a plea in his criminal case next week.
FIRE SEASON

Karney Fire in Boise County now 100 percent contained

Fire officials said Wednesday crews have achieved 100 percent containment on the 440-acre Karney Fire in Boise County, which just a week ago was threatening more than 100 homes in the Robie Creek and Wilderness Ranch areas.
FIRE SEASON

Black bear rescued from Idaho wildfire may not be ready to hibernate this winter

Boo Boo the bear may spend this winter eating and napping, rather than hibernating in a den, according to the director of the Snowdon Wildlife Refuge near McCall.