Fire Season
Fire Season
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FIRE SEASON
After leaping out of planes almost 400 times to fight wildfires, Walt Wasser is hanging up his parachute
Longtime Idaho smokejumper Walt Wasser, dubbed a ‘living legend,’ retired last month after 395 jumps battling wildfire in Idaho forests.
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BOISE, GARDEN CITY, MOUNTAIN HOME
Largest of two fires burns 30 acres in Southeast Boise Wednesday afternoon
A grass fire that was reported at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Cole and Vallejo roads burned about 30 acres.
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MERIDIAN, EAGLE, KUNA, STAR
Grass fire breaks out near Kuna
Kuna firefighters are battling a grass fire near Ten Mile and Hubbard roads. The fire was reported about 12:46 p.m., at the time it was about a half acre in size. Fire crews are protecting one nearby structure in case the fire spreads. Check back with Idaho Statesman for more details.
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Wondering why there are big military planes in Boise today?
Some military C-130s are in town for a media photo opp this afternoon at the National Interagency Fire Center, and two will be based here to be ready for wildfire-fighting duty in this region.
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LOCAL NEWS
Semi tractor-trailer catches fire, sparks grass fire in Elmore County
Crews from Elmore and Gooding Counties, Glenns Ferry and from the Bureau of Land Management are fighting a grass fire sparked by a burning semi truck on Interstate 84.
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ENVIRONMENT
Fire near Salmon forces Idaho cobalt mine construction workers to evacuate
Read the story here.
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YAHOO FEEDS
Wildland fire crews make good progress on 20 small blazes in Boise National Forest
Fire crews have contained most of the 20 wildfires ignited Sunday night by a lighting storm in the Boise National Forest, officials said Wednesday.
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FIRE SEASON
Star fire crews stamp out grass fire just west of Idaho 16
Star, Eagle, Middleton, and Meridian fire crews spent several hours stamping out a large grass fire in the rolling terrain just west of Idaho 16.
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Idaho lab wildfire 50 percent contained
Fire crews estimate that the range fire at the Idaho National Laboratory that threatened several nuclear facilities overnight is 3 miles from the nearest building. It has burned about 36,000 acres.






