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The South Canyon Fire was a 1994 wildfire that took the lives of 14 wildland firefighters on Storm King Mountain, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1994. It is often also referred to as the "Storm King" fire. It was the subject of John Maclean's book Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire.
The Mountain Fire in California's Ventura County, whose explosive growth was fueled by 80-mph winds last week, has burned 32 square miles as of Tuesday. As winds slowed, firefighters raised the ...
The Mountain fire could have been a second coming of the 2017 Thomas or 2018 Woolsey fires, but luckily it didn't pan out that way, said Mark Lorenzen, the Ventura County Fire Department chief ...
The Mountain Fire began shortly before 9:00 a.m. PST on November 6 during an episode of strong Santa Ana winds in Southern California. [2] The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center delineated an "extremely critical" risk area on their Day 1 fire weather outlook, warning of low relative humidity values combined with a strong wind event with gusts of over 65 miles per hour (105 km/h ...
A Los Angeles County firefighter battles flames as a home burns from the Mountain Fire on Nov. 6, 2024 in Camarillo, California. Pushed by strong winds, the fire has burned across more than 10,000 ...
Storm King Mountain is a mountain in the White River National Forest of the Rocky Mountains, 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in northeastern Garfield County. It is on the north side of the Colorado River and Interstate 70 (I-70), between Glenwood Springs and New Castle .A ski lift at the Copper Mountain Ski Resort is ...
As of 7:46 p.m., the fire had burned 14,148 acres and was not contained, according to the latest incident update released by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
The Mountain fire has been the most destructive wildfire in Southern California in several years — though it has not approached the damage caused by the 2017 Thomas fire, which scorched more ...